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1 online resource (202 pages) |
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Routledge library editions. Philosophy of religion ; vol. 11 |
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Routledge library editions. Philosophy of religion ; v. 11.
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| Contents |
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, utility 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 |
| Summary |
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 the advance of natural science, the spread of education and other social improvements, and reforms in the political realm. These changes forced religion to account for itself and to justify its e |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 20, 2019) |
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Religion and politics -- Great Britain -- History
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Secularism -- History
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Political science -- Great Britain -- History
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PHILOSOPHY -- Political.
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Political science
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Religion and politics
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Secularism
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Crimmins, James E., 1953- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780203529492 |
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0203529499 |
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9781134047390 |
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1134047398 |
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