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Not by Reason Alone Religion: History, and Identity in Early Modern Political Thought

By Joshua Mitchell

Book information

Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Year
1993
ISBN
0226532216, 9780226532219
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
16 MB (16276520 bytes)
Pages
\263
Time added
2021-03-21 23:26:24

Description

Masterfully interweaving political, religious, and historical themes, Not by Reason Alone creates a new interpretation of early modern political thought. Where most accounts assume that modern thought followed a decisive break with Christianity, Joshua Mitchell reveals that the line between the age of faith and that of reason is not quite so clear. Instead, he shows that the ideas of Luther, Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau draw on history, rather than reason alone, for a sense of political authority.

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