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Krom, Michael P.

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The fate of the transcendent in Hobbes's political philosophy: Religion, philosophy, and the fear of death.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The fate of the transcendent in Hobbes's political philosophy: Religion, philosophy, and the fear of death./
Author:	Krom, Michael P.
Description:	265 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Ann Hartle.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-05A.
Subject:	Philosophy. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3264082
ISBN:	9780549026655

The fate of the transcendent in Hobbes's political philosophy: Religion, philosophy, and the fear of death.
Krom, Michael P.

The fate of the transcendent in Hobbes's political philosophy: Religion, philosophy, and the fear of death. - 265 p.

Adviser: Ann Hartle.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Emory University, 2007.

Hobbes's understanding of the nature of both philosophy and religion is central to his civil philosophy. Philosophy has as its aim the improvement of man's condition and is to be contrasted with "vain philosophy," or the Aristotelian-based Scholasticism that posits the existence of immaterial substances and leads people into confusion and rebellion. Vain philosophers exercise power in the commonwealth through the schools and universities by teaching priests seditious doctrines that foment civil war. Peace can only be secured in the commonwealth if this vain philosophy is replaced with the true philosophy that teaches the citizens their civil duties. Religion, despite being rooted in superstitious fear and ignorance, can play a positive role in the commonwealth when the citizens are taught their civil duties by the priests of the public religion. Peace requires uniting the commonwealth and the Church. The enemy of peace is the Roman Catholic Church, or the "kingdom of fairies" that uses the vain philosophy taught in the schools and universities throughout Christendom to exercise its "ghostly authority" over Christians. By dividing the citizens' allegiances between the commonwealth and the Church, the Roman Catholic Church leads people into civil war. In my criticism of Hobbes I consider the philosopher's search for wisdom and the Christian's claim that charity is the basis of community as problems for Hobbes: inasmuch as the vain philosopher and the Roman Catholic are motivated by their desire for the transcendent, they do not acknowledge that seeking peace is their most fundamental obligation. For Hobbes, the transcendent must be replaced by peace in order to remove humans from the state of nature. I question whether this solution is an adequate response to the human condition.

ISBN: 9780549026655Subjects--Topical Terms:

516511
Philosophy.

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