The Project of Secularization of Politics and the Establishment of a Civil State in the Christian West through Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan
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اللفيثان, الدولة المدنية, العلمانية, الدين Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes, Civil State, Secularism, Religion
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This research aims to question the possibility of a "secularization" project for politics in Anglo-Saxon thought through Thomas Hobbes’s Levithan. Given the nature of religion and its natural seed, and the issue of “religious conversion” resulting from them, as well as the conflict between the “structure of faith” and the structure of political commitment, Thomas Hobbes concludes that a purely rational policy is necessary and replaced with the aim of adjusting the relationship between politics and religion on the one hand, and laying the foundations of the civil state on the other hand. And since the political authority is a product of the search for the social contract, which is established between individuals, each authority is a secular political authority according to which the individual political ruler and the men of the clergy submit to the authority of the "Levithan", that is, the state.
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