| Louise M. Antony - Religion - 2007 - 336 pages
...left blank ELEVEN Transcendence without God: On Atheism and Invisibility Anthony Simon Laden "Feare of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined...publicly allowed, Religion; not allowed, Superstition." — Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, chapter 6 "I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to... | |
| Patricia Springborg - Philosophy - 2007
...and drawing very unnatural inferences from them'.48 He disliked Hobbes's definition of religion as 'Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed', which was implicitly too redolent of skepticism.49 Some of the powers in religion that Hobbes attributed... | |
| James Hastings, John Alexander Selbie, Louis Herbert Gray - Ethics - 1910 - 932 pages
...purposes appears to render the genuineness of his theism very doubtful. •Belays down the following definition, "Fear of power Invisible, feigned by the mind or imagined from tales publicly allowed. K'tigion ; not allowed, Superstition " ' (Lange, op. eft., ToL L p. 2S3X While both Thomas Hobbes and... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1887 - 616 pages
...necessary for human happiness, or it would have been made known to the whole race of mankind.' Again, 'fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion, not allowed superstition.'^ Hobbes, in speaking of impostures wrought by confederacy,... | |
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