Anglicanism
esp during 1600s-ish
- embraced ceremony/ritual & harmless pleasures on Sabbath
- tradition/pope/bishops establish religious leadership
- hierarchical
Politically
- Divine Right of KingsDivine Right of Kings
Divine Right of Kings
King is appointed directly by God. Thus, king is answerable to God alone & to no earthly authority (not even Parliament)
What connection does it have to primeval polytheism?
- Absolute monarchy
- monarch governs by appointment from God
- king is God's chosen son
- bulwark against disorder (HobbesHobbes
Thomas Hobbes
Wrote Hobbes, Leviathan
Do people have the natural ability to be good? Hobbes -> no
- humans left to their own devices would be horrible; no innate goodness or morality
Hobbes wanted to bring order, and a king will bring more order than any democracy (Comparison w/ LockeMOC - Modern Philosophers
Modern Philosophers
%% Leaving the Middle Ages %%
"Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World." - Columbus
[[Aristotle]]'s Paradigm is their background, what they are breaking free of
New Paradigm
[[Thirty Years War]] scared them; religion is not the answer
starting with the Renaissance, now the church is no longer the authority: science is the authority
Also, [[Aristotle]] & [[Plato]] are no longer the authority
philosophy's goal is to justify the new epistemo...)
- trade in freedoms for the security of natural society
Hobbes was pretty universally despised
He identified common symptoms that people recognized...)