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Hobbes's Critique of religion & related writings / Leo Strauss ; translated and edited by Gabriel Bartlett & Svetozar Minkov.

Author/creator Strauss, Leo
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoChicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Descriptionxiv, 167 pages ; 24 cm
Subject(s)
Uniform titleReligionskritik des Hobbes. English
Variant title Hobbes's Critique of religion and related writings
Contents Occasion and purpose of the study -- Hobbes's politics and the critique of revelation -- The different versions of Hobbes's critique of religion -- The critique of the tradition -- The principle of scripture -- Spirits and angels -- The kingdom of God and eternal life -- Temporal and spiritual power -- The kingdom of darkness -- Characteristics of the critique of the tradition -- The critique of scripture -- The knowability and the believability of revelation -- The knowability and the possibility of revelation -- The knowability and the possibility of miracles -- Hobbes and Descartes -- The basis of Hobbes's critique of religion.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LanguageTranslated from the German.
LCCN 2010052559
ISBN9780226776828 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0226776824 (cloth : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks B1247 .S7713 2011 ✔ Available Place Hold