How does Hobbes understand science and religion? What is the origin and purpose of each? Do they overlap or conflict in any way? How does his thinking on science and religion relate to and illuminate his larger understanding of human nature and motivation?
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Whoinell cares?
Philosophy is a field where people memorize words that are not used for any other purpose and names that are not associated with any practical subject. It is important to recite these words and names using correct grammar, but not important to speak anything meaningful. They get very rude when you point out the emptiness of their prattling.
Thomas Hobbes (April 5, 1588–December 4, 1679) was an English philosopher, whose famous 1651 book Leviathan set the agenda for much of subsequent Western political philosophy.
Hobbes was one of the first political philosophers who tried to explain and justify political authority without recourse to the religious justifications such as the divine right of kings.
The kind of governments that would have been approved by Hobbes would include benevolent dictators and enlightened despots and monarchies. A Fascist government,
or Worshiping the State would have been the more approved supreme authority of the State, as some like Hobbes and other 18th- and 19th-century German philosophers promoted.
Fascism elevates the State above all other authority, both religious and civil.
There have been as to date, many governments tried and tested through man's travel through time, yet none of them has worked. Like all other kinds of human rule, Fascism has been weighed in the balances and found wanting?
Which causes us to reexamine an expression, "Man has dominated man to his harm".
Ecclesiastes 8:9
Further the Bible also makes this statement. At Daniel 2:44 “In the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed. And this kingdom will not be passed on to any other people. It will crush and put an end to all these kingdoms, and it alone will stand forever".
Hobbes who contributed to a diverse array of fields, was only one human trying to decipher the mess mankind had already created. A careful examination of the Bible can help us to understand, what kind of government and what kind of worship the creator of mankind wants. John 17:3 says, "This means everlasting life, their coming to know you, the only true God, and the one whom you sent, Jesus Christ."
I invite you to investigate this for yourself. Ref: jw.org
Thomas Hobbes he wrote the Leviathan