 | New Thought - 1952 - 1054 pages
...all religion." (Encyc. Brit.) Also in his famous treatise, the Leviathan, he lays down the following definition: "Fear of power invisible, feigned by the...publicly allowed, Religion; not allowed, Superstition." It is said that his personal view on religion was that we can form no idea of God. He was held to be... | |
 | Morris Kline - Mathematics - 1964 - 513 pages
...indispensable. Hobbes explained the existence of formal religions as merely accepted superstition. 'Fear of power invisible feigned by the mind or imagined from tales, publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.' To 'the infidel Hume,' for example, religion was merely a... | |
 | Ralph Gilbert Ross, Herbert Wallace Schneider, Theodore Waldmann - Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 - 1974 - 162 pages
...Hobbes, as the famous definition of Leviathan makes clear, is a legal organization of certain emotions. "Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or...publicly allowed, RELIGION; not allowed, SUPERSTITION. And when the power imagined, is truly such as we imagine, TRUE RELIGION" (III, 145). It should be noted... | |
 | Joseph C. McLelland, Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion - Religion - 1988 - 385 pages
...and taking of things casual for prognostics, consisteth the natural seed of religion" (I, 12). Again: "Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly told allowed, [is called] RELIGION; not allowed SUPERSTITION" (I, 6). Our myth is socialized by Hobbes,... | |
 | David Daiches Raphael - Philosophy - 1991 - 440 pages
...continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure. Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined...publicly allowed, RELIGION; not allowed, SUPERSTITION. And when the power imagined, is truly such as we imagine, TRUE RELIGION. Fear, without the apprehension... | |
 | A. P. Martinich - Philosophy - 2003 - 454 pages
...when Hobbes says that curiosity is the cause of religion (EW, 3:94).10 Hobbes then defines religion as "Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed" (EW, 3:45). This definition of religion is neutral on the issue of whether any religion is true or... | |
 | Preston T. King - Ethics - 1993 - 552 pages
...Leviathan, pp. 540-541. 9. Idem., p. 713. 10. Idem., p. 98. Cf. also the statement that religion consists of "fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed" and differs from superstition only in that the latter is "not allowed." Idem., p. 45. 11. I find my... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - Law - 1999 - 356 pages
...exceptionally waspish comments about religion. A famous one pops up apparently gratuitously in Leviathan, VI: 'Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publickly allowed, Religion; not allowed, Superstition', and again, in chapter XXXII of Leviathan,... | |
 | Robert E. Stillman - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 372 pages
...the fearful logic of a sovereign By definition, religion is for Hobbes intimately connected to fear, "Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed. . . . And when the power imagined, is truly such as we imagine, TRUE RELIGION" (3.45). Imaginary fears... | |
 | H. James Jensen - English drama - 1996 - 478 pages
...continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure. Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined...publicly allowed, RELIGION; not allowed, SUPERSTITION. And when the power imagined, is truly such as we imagine, TRUE RELIGION. Fear, without the apprehension... | |
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Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, religion; not allowed, superstition. 
