1st Edition
Religion, Secularization and Political Thought Thomas Hobbes to J. S. Mill
Edited By James E. Crimmins
Copyright 1990
216 Pages
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Routledge
214 Pages
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Routledge
216 Pages
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Routledge
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The increasing secularization of political thought between the mid-seventeenth and mid-nineteenth centuries has often been noted, but rarely described in detail. The contributors to this volume consider the significance of the relationship between religious beliefs, dogma and secular ideas in British political philosophy from Thomas Hobbes to J.S. Mill.
During this period, Britain experienced... Read more
Introduction James E. Crimmins 1. The Religious and the Secular in the Work of Thomas Hobbes S.A. State 2. John Locke: Socinian or Natural Law Theorist? David Wootton 3. The Religious, the Secular and the Worldly: Scotland 1680-1800 Roger L. Emerson 4. Science and Secularization in Hume, Smith and Bentham Douglas G. Long 5. Edmund Burke and John Wesley: The Legacy of Locke Frederick Dreyer 6. Religion, Utlity and Politics: Bentham Versus Paley James E. Crimmins 7. From God to Man? F.D. Maurice and Changing Ideas of God and Man T.R. Sansom 8. J.S. Mill and the Religion of Humanity Richard Vernon
Biography
Crimmins, James E.
