" (Leviathan, Chapter 12).
This passage speaks directly to man's relationship with God in Hobbes' eyes. The idea that God exists pre-logic erupts into an understanding that faith and fate play such an integral role in Man's life. Whatever we may do to secure our happiness we may do, but fate and faith play a larger role than we would generally care to admit to be the case.
In general, Hobbes philosophy on religion does satisfy a lot of philosophic ends. It points at one true course (Christianity) and also obviates the need to justify religion in the face of logic and philosophy. As in, we do not need to logically defend Christ's birth, the stories of his life and the prophets, and subsequently the parable of his cruxifiction. In fact, we do not even need to defend logically the basic premises of religion or specifically Christianity.
Instead, we can concentrate on philosophy surrounding our politics and metaphysics: Let God and the idea of religion and original birth of man be untouchable and above our rationalization. This is a very neat, clean solution for one of philosophy's messiest question: Whence did we come, and is there is a higher power, a Prime Mover?
Hobbes answers this question with a simple 'yes': There is a Prime Mover, He worked in His mysterious ways before the...
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