Giovanni Fiaschi
Biographic Data
| ID | 6546307 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Giovanni Fiaschi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Giovanni |
| FAMILY NAME | Fiaschi |
| SIGNATURE | FIASCHI G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Università di PadovaItaly |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Hobbes and Theology
Going beyond the belief-unbelief controversy in the scholarly debate about Hobbes’s theological ideas, the essays in this issue look at the philosopher’s theology as a practical science for attaining particular ends, irrespective of his religious feelings. This approach is both to reassert the seriousness of Hobbes’s discourse on theology and to show how deeply political issues are involved in the development of his theological science. From this…
The Power of Words. Political and Theological Science in Thomas Hobbes
Far from being only an insincere homage to the spirit of his time, Hobbes’s concern for theology is a consequence of his political individualism. Irrespective of God’s real existence, in order to answer the ‘Foole’ and to assure legitimation and obedience to Leviathan, calculating reason is not enough, as individual faith in God and in the binding force of His law of nature is required. In Leviathan II, chapter XXXI, the correspondence between th…
Hobbes on time and politics
Starting from the theoretical maxim that the full understanding of a particular political perspective can only be achieved by taking into consideration the peculiar way in which this perspective represents its own being in time, the essay aims at clarifying Hobbes’s novel concept of political time. It is shown that, despite Hobbes’ statement, there is a great distance between Aristotle’s and Hobbes’s concept of time, because Hobbes’s answer to qu…
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Hobbes on time and politics
Starting from the theoretical maxim that the full understanding of a particular political perspective can only be achieved by taking into consideration the peculiar way in which this perspective represents its own being in time, the essay aims at clarifying Hobbes’s novel concept of political time. It is shown that, despite Hobbes’ statement, there is a great distance between Aristotle’s and Hobbes’s concept of time, because Hobbes’s answer to qu…
Hobbes and Theology
Going beyond the belief-unbelief controversy in the scholarly debate about Hobbes’s theological ideas, the essays in this issue look at the philosopher’s theology as a practical science for attaining particular ends, irrespective of his religious feelings. This approach is both to reassert the seriousness of Hobbes’s discourse on theology and to show how deeply political issues are involved in the development of his theological science. From this…
The Power of Words. Political and Theological Science in Thomas Hobbes
Far from being only an insincere homage to the spirit of his time, Hobbes’s concern for theology is a consequence of his political individualism. Irrespective of God’s real existence, in order to answer the ‘Foole’ and to assure legitimation and obedience to Leviathan, calculating reason is not enough, as individual faith in God and in the binding force of His law of nature is required. In Leviathan II, chapter XXXI, the correspondence between th…
Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought (3 works) · Law (2 works) · Political theology (2 works) · Political Theology and Sovereignty (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Cultural Studies and Colonialism (1 work) · Epistemology (1 work) · Heresy (1 work) · Intellectual history (1 work)