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Thomas Hobbes and the Kingdom of Darkness: The Critique of the Catholic Tradition and the Modern Catholic Response.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Thomas Hobbes and the Kingdom of Darkness: The Critique of the Catholic Tradition and the Modern Catholic Response./
Author:	Fernando, Nigel.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2019,
Description:	175 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-04, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International81-04A.
Subject:	Religion. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=13427295
ISBN:	9781085760119

Thomas Hobbes and the Kingdom of Darkness: The Critique of the Catholic Tradition and the Modern Catholic Response.
Fernando, Nigel.

Thomas Hobbes and the Kingdom of Darkness: The Critique of the Catholic Tradition and the Modern Catholic Response. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2019 - 175 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-04, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto (Canada), 2019.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

This project explores Thomas Hobbes' critique of religion as a polemic against the Catholic tradition. I argue that Hobbes' construction of political philosophy was motivated by his desire to create a stronger platform for absolute Sovereignty due to the need for greater political stability in England during the first half of the 17th century. In order to achieve this goal, Hobbes had to dismantle the foundation of rival forms of political authority in England; the strongest being the ethos of the Catholic Church that remained after the English Reformation. To accomplish the task of challenging the Catholic Church's authority, Hobbes questioned the scholastic foundation upon which that authority relied. Drawing upon Leo Strauss' unpublished work, Hobbes' Critique of Religion, this project uses Strauss' critique to draw out the elements specific to Hobbes' attack upon Catholicism, and not just religion in general. Hobbes systematically challenged Catholic natural philosophy and Catholic institutions to call into question the efficacy and legitimacy of Catholic political authority. These attempts to undermine the foundation of Catholic political authority necessitated the construction of a replacement philosophy, which gave rise to a new and completely secular foundation for early modern political philosophy. Striving for greater political stability, Hobbes redefines political philosophy by relegating the role of religion and restructuring Catholic beliefs to limit the agency Catholicism had in directing the behaviour of its believers in their political and ethical choices. This project takes up this question from the vantage point of modern Catholic critics, like Elizabeth Anscombe and Alasdair MacIntyre, who lament the changes that occurred at the beginning of the Enlightenment. These Catholic critics argue that the current problem in ethics started in the Enlightenment. However, the seeds of the transformation of ethics can be traced further back to the beginnings of the early modern period and specifically to the construction of a secular foundation for political theory through the thought of Thomas Hobbes. Thus, this project demonstrates that this lamentable state of the modern condition as described by 20th century Catholic critics implicates the changes Hobbes initiated through his critique of the Catholic tradition in the 17th century. The nature of the changes Hobbes made to political philosophy in the 17th century become the very substance of the critique levelled against modernity by Catholic critics centuries later.

ISBN: 9781085760119Subjects--Topical Terms:

516493
Religion.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Catholocism

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