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Brandon, Eric Edward.

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The union of politics and religion in Hobbes' "Leviathan" (Thomas Hobbes).

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The union of politics and religion in Hobbes' "Leviathan" (Thomas Hobbes)./
Author:	Brandon, Eric Edward.
Description:	186 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Daniel Garber.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International63-07A.
Subject:	Philosophy. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3060194
ISBN:	0493757112

The union of politics and religion in Hobbes' "Leviathan" (Thomas Hobbes).
Brandon, Eric Edward.

The union of politics and religion in Hobbes' "Leviathan" (Thomas Hobbes). - 186 p.

Adviser: Daniel Garber.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Chicago, 2002.

It is uncontroversial that the main goal of Thomas Hobbes' <italic> Leviathan</italic> is to show the inhabitants of a commonwealth, notably England, how they can obtain lasting internal peace. Given his absolutism, Hobbes must provide an argument for absolutism and criteria for the identification of the absolute sovereign in order to achieve this goal. However, there is an important related question: are both halves of <italic>Leviathan</italic>, with Parts 1 and 2 making up the first half and Parts 3 and 4 the second, necessary in order to satisfy these two conditions?

ISBN: 0493757112Subjects--Topical Terms:

516511
Philosophy.

The union of politics and religion in Hobbes' "Leviathan" (Thomas Hobbes).
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520 $a It is uncontroversial that the main goal of Thomas Hobbes' <italic> Leviathan</italic> is to show the inhabitants of a commonwealth, notably England, how they can obtain lasting internal peace. Given his absolutism, Hobbes must provide an argument for absolutism and criteria for the identification of the absolute sovereign in order to achieve this goal. However, there is an important related question: are both halves of <italic>Leviathan</italic>, with Parts 1 and 2 making up the first half and Parts 3 and 4 the second, necessary in order to satisfy these two conditions?
520 $a In this dissertation, I give an affirmative answer to this question by offering an interpretation of <italic>Leviathan</italic> that explains how the four parts fit together to form a coherent whole. I argue that <italic> Leviathan</italic>, much like Hobbes' Christian commonwealth, should be viewed as a unified work that has two aspects, secular and religious. The Christian commonwealth has its civil and ecclesiastical sides that are united in the person of the sovereign. Likewise, <italic>Leviathan</italic> is clearly divided in half, with the first half based upon reason and the second half arguing from reason and revelation. Yet, these two halves, the secular and the religious, are united by parallel arguments for absolutism and the identification of the sovereign that, ultimately, are founded upon materialism. Hobbes' materialism provides the foundation for his conception of human nature and his deduction of the laws of nature in Part 1 and for his theory of sovereignty in Part 2. This same materialism, along with the other principles of biblical exegesis used by Hobbes, forms the foundation for the interpretations of Scripture that are used to argue in Part 3 that the nominal civil authority is the absolute sovereign in Christian commonwealths. Part 4 relies on materialism in order to undermine the dualistic metaphysics, and certain religious doctrines that it supports, that Hobbes feels threatens the positive arguments that he has presented in Part 3. In this way, materialism unites the work in terms of substance and the parallel argumentative strategy unites the work in terms of logical structure.
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