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Third Article. The prince is reminded of different characters of ministers or counselors: good, mixture of good and bad, and wicked. Fourth Article. To help the prince to know men well, one shows him, in a general way, some characters drawn by the Holy Spirit in the Book of Wisdom. Fifth Article.
The goal of the state is to guarantee the freedom of citizens. Religious leaders should not interfere in politics. Spinoza interrupted his writing of his magnum opus, the Ethics, to respond to the increasing intolerance in the Dutch Republic, directly challenging religious authorities and their power over freedom of thought. He published the ...
Against this hierocratic conception, Dante argued a need for another strong power, the Holy Roman emperor, proposing that man pursues two ends: the happiness of earthly life and of eternal life. Dante argued that the pope is assigned the management of men's eternal life (the higher of the two), but the emperor the task of leading men towards ...
A Treatise of Civil Power in Ecclesiastical Causes was published in February 1659 after Richard Cromwell established a new Parliament. Milton addresses the tract to Cromwell and Parliament because he was afraid of the various positions of the Interregnum government that promoted intolerance and limited the free speech of individuals (like Milton himself).
The eight authors appointed to write the Bridgewater Treatises were offered little guidance about what was expected of them, and the individual works were varied. [15] In particular, while the series has sometimes been seen primarily as a contribution to natural theology, [16] the authors did not agree about the extent to which humans could acquire knowledge of God by observation and reasoning ...
On Christian Doctrine) is a theological treatise of the English poet and thinker John Milton (1608–1674), containing a systematic exposition of his religious views. The Latin manuscript "De Doctrina" was found in 1823 and published in 1825. The authorship of the work is debatable.
He comes up with a kind of constitutionalism but not an outright anti-monarchical argument. He gives a theory of how people come into commonwealths and come to elect kings. He explains what the role of a king should be, and conversely what a tyrant is, and why it is necessary to limit a ruler's power through laws and oaths.
Treatise on the Gods (1930) is H. L. Mencken's survey of the history and philosophy of religion, and was intended as an unofficial companion volume to his Treatise on Right and Wrong (1934). [1] The first and second printings were sold out before publication, and eight more printings followed. [ 2 ]