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Leighton Library has 1671 edition of "The creed of Mr. Hobbes examined; in a feigned conference between him and a student in divinity" by Thomas Tenison
Added at 06:22 on 29 September 2024
The Leighton Library has a 1671 edition of "The creed of Mr. Hobbes examined; in a feigned conference between him and a student in divinity" by English church leader, Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Tenison who was born #OnThisDay 29 September 1636. This argues against the views of Thomas Hobbes (one of the founders of modern political philosophy and political science). As Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Tenison crowned two British monarchs. The philosophy of Thomas Hobbes has been regarded as a high point of a century of great philosophical achievement. Responses to his materialist system and secular analysis of society was generally strongly hostile, as his ideas were viewed as being challenging. Thomas Hobbes was one of the central Social Contract philosophers of the enlightenment. He believed a social contract, with a strong authority being necessary to keep order, would see individuals surrendering their freedom in exchange for security under a higher power, what he called a Leviathan
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