Research Article

HOBBES ON THE PROBLEM OF SECULARISM

Number: 33 May 21, 2022
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HOBBES ON THE PROBLEM OF SECULARISM

Abstract

Secularism is one of the major topics in political philosophy in our age. The reason why it’s so, is that the secularized religion is still a strong social glue and moral source in our day. Secularism, to say shortly, refers to the religion’s abandoning of all its worldy demands, especially its political demands by turning into a cultural body among the others. In fact, the secularism, as a cultural process, had begun in the mid of Medieval Age. But neither reconciliation between religion and science/philosophy nor nominalism were sufficient for secularism; because the relation between culture and religion needed to be reconstructed and the question was how this goal could be achieved without neglecting the religion’s autonomy and by holding it as a moral source. The answer requires an effort to create a new morality, a new politics, a new science and of course a new epistemology. Hobbes was the first who made this effort to overcome the problem by using the theoretical equipment told above. This article takes what Hobbes did to achieve the goal and examines his thought in respect of its relation with secularism.

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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

Philosophy

Journal Section

Research Article

Publication Date

May 21, 2022

Submission Date

October 28, 2021

Acceptance Date

April 13, 2022

Published in Issue

Year 2022 Number: 33

Chicago
Müftüoğlu, Aydin. 2022. “HOBBES ON THE PROBLEM OF SECULARISM”. FLSF Felsefe Ve Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, nos. 33: 61-74. https://doi.org/10.53844/flsf.1016066.

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