Secular Powers : Humility in Modern Political Thought.
Secularism is usually thought to contain the project of self-deification, in which humans attack God's authority in order to take his place, freed from all constraints. Julie E. Cooper overturns this conception through an incisive analysis of the early modern justifications for secular politics...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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University of Chicago Press,
2013.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Toward a revised history of modesty and humility
- Modesty: Hobbes on how mere mortals can create a mortal god
- Humility: Spinoza on the joys of finitude
- Self-love: Rousseau on the allure, and the elusiveness of divine self-sufficiency
- Conclusion: a modest tale about theoretical modesty.