Search Results - "Thomas Hobbes"

Reflections on religion, the divine, and the constitution / by Anastaplo, George, 1925-

Table of Contents: “…Euripides on the use and abuse of revelation in the service of the political order -- The divine, an unsettling duality, and the conduct of one's life : Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannos revisited -- On Aristophanes' Clouds -- Socrates' dangerous piety -- Plato on the divine in human affairs -- Maimonides and others on faith, philosophy, and governing principles -- Conscience and citizenship -- El Greco and his successors -- Miguel de Cervantes on death, the divine, and the proper ordering of human affairs -- Thomas Hobbes on church and state -- John Milton's Paradise epics and the divinely-ordained redemption of the human race -- Challenges posed by the Aztecs -- The Holocaust and the divine ordering of human affairs -- Nature and the divine in the declaration of independence -- Benedict Arnold, providence, and the fates of citizens and of nations -- Benjamin Franklin and the workings of the divine at least in America -- "In the year of [what] lord?" …”
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Reflections on religion, the divine, and the constitution / by Anastaplo, George, 1925-

Table of Contents: “…Euripides on the use and abuse of revelation in the service of the political order -- The divine, an unsettling duality, and the conduct of one's life : Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannos revisited -- On Aristophanes' Clouds -- Socrates' dangerous piety -- Plato on the divine in human affairs -- Maimonides and others on faith, philosophy, and governing principles -- Conscience and citizenship -- El Greco and his successors -- Miguel de Cervantes on death, the divine, and the proper ordering of human affairs -- Thomas Hobbes on church and state -- John Milton's Paradise epics and the divinely-ordained redemption of the human race -- Challenges posed by the Aztecs -- The Holocaust and the divine ordering of human affairs -- Nature and the divine in the declaration of independence -- Benedict Arnold, providence, and the fates of citizens and of nations -- Benjamin Franklin and the workings of the divine at least in America -- "In the year of [what] lord?" …”
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The art of veiled speech : self-censorship from Aristophanes to Hobbes / by Baltussen, Han, Davis, Peter J.

Table of Contents: “…Davis -- Compulsory freedom : literature in Trajan's Rome / John Penwill -- Christian correspondences : the secrets of letter-writers and letter-bearers / Pauline Allen -- "Silence Is also annulment" : veiled and unveiled speech in seventh-century martyr commemorations / Bronwen Neil -- "Dixit quod nunquam vidit hereticos" : dissimulation and self-censorship in thirteenth-century Inquisitorial testimonies / Megan Cassidy-Welch -- Inquisition, art, and self-censorship in the early modern Spanish church, 1563-1834 / François Soyer -- Thomas Hobbes and the problem of self-censorship / Jonathan Parkin.…”
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The art of veiled speech : self-censorship from Aristophanes to Hobbes / by Baltussen, Han, Davis, Peter J.

Table of Contents: “…Davis -- Compulsory freedom : literature in Trajan's Rome / John Penwill -- Christian correspondences : the secrets of letter-writers and letter-bearers / Pauline Allen -- "Silence Is also annulment" : veiled and unveiled speech in seventh-century martyr commemorations / Bronwen Neil -- "Dixit quod nunquam vidit hereticos" : dissimulation and self-censorship in thirteenth-century Inquisitorial testimonies / Megan Cassidy-Welch -- Inquisition, art, and self-censorship in the early modern Spanish church, 1563-1834 / François Soyer -- Thomas Hobbes and the problem of self-censorship / Jonathan Parkin.…”
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Versions of Blackness key texts on slavery from the seventeenth century /

Table of Contents: “…Iewes in America / from Thomas Thorowgood ; Americans no iewes / from Hamon l'Estrange ; Leviathan / from Thomas Hobbes ; A brief view and survey of the dangerous and pernicious errors to church and state, in Mr. …”
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Versions of Blackness key texts on slavery from the seventeenth century /

Table of Contents: “…Iewes in America / from Thomas Thorowgood ; Americans no iewes / from Hamon l'Estrange ; Leviathan / from Thomas Hobbes ; A brief view and survey of the dangerous and pernicious errors to church and state, in Mr. …”
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Recovering Disability in Early Modern England /

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Recovering Disability in Early Modern England /

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