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- Summary
- Secularism is usually thought to contain the project of self-deification, in which humans attack God's authority in order to take his place, freed from all constraints. Julie E. Cooper overturns this conception through an incisive analysis of the early modern justifications for secular politics. While she agrees that secularism is a means of empowerment, she argues that we have misunderstood the sources of secular empowerment and the kinds of strength to which it aspires. Contemporary understandings of secularism, Cooper contends, have been shaped by a limited understanding of it as a shift from vulnerability to power. But the works of the foundational thinkers of secularism tell a different story. Analyzing the writings of Hobbes, Spinoza, and Rousseau at the moment of secularity's inception, she shows that all three understood that acknowledging one's limitations was a condition of successful self-rule. And while all three invited humans to collectively build and sustain a political world, their invitations did not amount to self-deification. Cooper establishes that secular politics as originally conceived does not require a choice between power and vulnerability. Rather, it challenges us<U+0127> �today as then<U+0127> �to reconcile them both as essential components of our humanity --
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- x, 240 pages
- Contents
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- Toward a revised history of modesty and humility
- Modesty: Hobbes on how mere mortals can create a mortal god
- Humility: Spinoza on the joys of finitude
- Self-love: Rousseau on the allure, and the elusiveness of divine self-sufficiency
- Conclusion: a modest tale about theoretical modesty
- Isbn
- 9780226081298
- Label
- Secular powers : humility in modern political thought
- Title
- Secular powers
- Title remainder
- humility in modern political thought
- Statement of responsibility
- Julie E. Cooper
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Secularism is usually thought to contain the project of self-deification, in which humans attack God's authority in order to take his place, freed from all constraints. Julie E. Cooper overturns this conception through an incisive analysis of the early modern justifications for secular politics. While she agrees that secularism is a means of empowerment, she argues that we have misunderstood the sources of secular empowerment and the kinds of strength to which it aspires. Contemporary understandings of secularism, Cooper contends, have been shaped by a limited understanding of it as a shift from vulnerability to power. But the works of the foundational thinkers of secularism tell a different story. Analyzing the writings of Hobbes, Spinoza, and Rousseau at the moment of secularity's inception, she shows that all three understood that acknowledging one's limitations was a condition of successful self-rule. And while all three invited humans to collectively build and sustain a political world, their invitations did not amount to self-deification. Cooper establishes that secular politics as originally conceived does not require a choice between power and vulnerability. Rather, it challenges us<U+0127> �today as then<U+0127> �to reconcile them both as essential components of our humanity --
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- Cooper, Julie E
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- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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- Hobbes, Thomas
- Spinoza, Benedictus de
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
- Modesty
- Humility
- Secularism
- Philosophy, European
- Label
- Secular powers : humility in modern political thought, Julie E. Cooper
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
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- rdacontent.
- Contents
- Toward a revised history of modesty and humility -- Modesty: Hobbes on how mere mortals can create a mortal god -- Humility: Spinoza on the joys of finitude -- Self-love: Rousseau on the allure, and the elusiveness of divine self-sufficiency -- Conclusion: a modest tale about theoretical modesty
- Control code
- FIEb17498065
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- x, 240 pages
- Isbn
- 9780226081298
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- System control number
- (OCoLC)875204127
- Label
- Secular powers : humility in modern political thought, Julie E. Cooper
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Contents
- Toward a revised history of modesty and humility -- Modesty: Hobbes on how mere mortals can create a mortal god -- Humility: Spinoza on the joys of finitude -- Self-love: Rousseau on the allure, and the elusiveness of divine self-sufficiency -- Conclusion: a modest tale about theoretical modesty
- Control code
- FIEb17498065
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- x, 240 pages
- Isbn
- 9780226081298
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- System control number
- (OCoLC)875204127
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