Modern democracy and the theological-political problem in Spinoza, Rousseau, and Jefferson

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Modern democracy and the theological-political problem in Spinoza, Rousseau, and Jefferson

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by Lee Ward

Creator

• Ward, Lee, 1970-

Subject

• POLITICAL SCIENCE -- History & Theory
• POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies | Democracy
• Democracy
• Religion and politics
• RELIGION -- Theology

Language

eng

Summary

"This study examines the intersection of two philosophical developments that arguably have come to define contemporary life in the liberal democratic west. First, it considers how democracy has transformed historically from being one among several plausible forms of government into the only legitimate and publicly defensible regime. Second, it considers how modern democracy attempts to solve what has been called the 'theological-political problem, ' that is, the competing claims to rule grounded in conflicting appeals to reason and revelation, by determining that consent of the people would replace divine authorization as the source of political authority. Understanding the emergence of modern democracy requires examining the manner in which democratic political thinkers, most importantly Benedict Spinoza, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Thomas Jefferson re-conceptualized the traditional understanding of the relation between politics and religion. This book will show that Spinoza, Rousseau and Jefferson were the three who made the democratic west we know today"--

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• Recovering political philosophy

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Dewey number

321.8

Index

index present

LC call number

JC421

LC item number

.W37 2014

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Recovering political philosophy