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dc.contributor.authorPatapan, Haig
dc.date.accessioned2018-10-23T02:04:46Z
dc.date.available2018-10-23T02:04:46Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.identifier.issn1462-317X
dc.identifier.doi10.1179/1743171915Y.0000000009
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/143005
dc.description.abstractHobbes anticipates many important features of liberalism, including rights, the sovereign state, social contract and constitutionalism. Yet in his insistence that the sovereign will have final authority in matters of faith he appears to repudiate what we have come to consider the core liberal assumptions regarding separation of church and state. In this article, I argue that Hobbes takes this approach because of the political challenge posed by immortality (the promise of eternal rewards and the threat of eternal torment and damnation after death). Hobbes regards immortality as one of the most important factors that transform a religion from a means to strengthen the sovereign's authority, a “humane politiques,” to a “Divine politiques,” where others come to exercise countervailing claims on subjects' loyalty. Because immortality presents such a profound challenge to Hobbes' political remedy founded on the judicious use of fear, he adopts a twofold strategy to moderate its political influence. The first is a redefinition of who shall speak and what shall be said about immortality. The second strategy is to elevate the demands of this-world, by promising an eternal peace that will ensure a commodious life.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom1
dc.relation.ispartofpageto18
dc.relation.ispartofjournalPolitical Theology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPolitical science
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPolitical science not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4408
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode440899
dc.titlePolitics of Immortality: Hobbes on “Humane and Divine Politiques”
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
dc.description.versionAccepted Manuscript (AM)
gro.facultyGriffith Business School, School of Government and International Relations
gro.description.notepublicThis publication has been entered into Griffith Research Online as an Advanced Online Version.
gro.rights.copyright© 2016 Taylor & Francis (Routledge). This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Political Theology on 31 Mar 2016, available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1179/1743171915Y.0000000009
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