The Theological Origins of Modernity
内容简介
Exposing the religious roots of our ostensibly godless age, Michael Allen Gillespie reveals in this landmark study that modernity is much less secular than conventional wisdom suggests. Taking as his starting point the collapse of the medieval world, Gillespie argues that from the very beginning, moderns sought not to eliminate religion but to support a new view of religion and its place in human life. He goes on to explore the ideas of such figures as William of Ockham, Petrarch, Erasmus, Luther, Descartes, and Hobbes, showing that modernity is best understood as a series of attempts to formulate a new and coherent metaphysics or theology.
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作者简介
Michael Allen Gillespie is the Jerry G. and Patricia Crawford Hubbard Professor of Political Science in Trinity College of Arts and Sciences and professor of philosophy at Duke University. He is the author of Hegel, Heidegger, and the Ground of History and Nihilism Before Nietzsche, both published by the University of Chicago Press.
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读书文摘
这种把神的属性转移到其他存在领域并非没有危险。它发展到一个极端便会导致这样一种看法，认为人是像神一样的超人，只要运用意志就可以实现理想世界。
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