Hell and Anxiety in Hobbes'sLeviathan

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ID6403442
AutoresChristopher Scott Mcclure (Harvard University Press, autor correspondente)
Ano2011
Volume73
Fascículo1
Páginas1-27
Data de publicação2011-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe Review of Politics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0034-6705 • E-ISSN: 1748-6858
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0034670510000847
OpenAlexW2064582990
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas7
Referências citadas29

Despite his statements that the fear of damnation is greater than the fear of violent death, scholars have generally overlooked Hobbes's vision of hell. Hobbes's reinterpretation of hell is meant to redirect peoples' anxiety about whether they will get into heaven or hell into anxiety about whether there is a hell and if so, what it will be like. He did not expect that citizens of his state would accept his theology or that they would become secularists or atheists. He hoped that they would be left with an indeterminate belief they would be averse to examining. This becomes clear when Hobbes's theology is seen in light of his epistemology and his complex rhetorical strategy. Hobbes's theology has been rejected, but there is an affinity between his hopes for indeterminate belief and the religious attitudes of many in the West

Aesthetics · Damnation · Epistemology · Heaven · LEVIATHAN (cipher · Psychoanalysis · Reinterpretation · Rhetorical question · State (computer science · Theology · Philosophy · Political Theology and Sovereignty · Psychology · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought · War, Ethics, and Justification