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1 online resource |
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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 |
| Summary |
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. While she agrees that secularism is a means of empowerment, she argues that we have misunderstood the sources of secular empowerment and the kinds of strength to which it aspires. Contemporary understandings of secularism, Cooper contends, have been shaped by a limited understanding |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679.
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Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677.
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Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778.
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Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 fast |
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Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778 fast |
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Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677 fast |
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Modesty.
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Humility.
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Secularism -- Europe -- History
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Philosophy, European -- 17th century
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PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
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Humility
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Modesty
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Philosophy, European
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Secularism
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Europe
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1299916228 |
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9781299916227 |
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9780226081328 |
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022608132X |
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