No. 61 (2021): July-December
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Hobbes and Religious Tolerance: A Reading of Leviathan from the Concept of Religion

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  • Álvaro A. Pezoa Gutiérrez
Álvaro A. Pezoa Gutiérrez
Universidad de los Andes, Chile
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21555/top.v0i61.1195

Published 2021-06-23

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Pezoa Gutiérrez, Álvaro A. (2021). Hobbes and Religious Tolerance: A Reading of Leviathan from the Concept of Religion. Tópicos, Revista De Filosofía, (61), 39–67. https://doi.org/10.21555/top.v0i61.1195

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Abstract

This article analyzes the possibility of finding an approach favorable to religious tolerance in Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan. With this aim, I will first establish a contrast between two interpretative groups that have guided the discussion on the subject, focusing mainly on Leviathan. On the one side, there are more “traditional” commentators of Hobbes’s works, to whom the idea of religious tolerance in Hobbes’s texts makes little or no sense; on the other hand, there are academics who defend a “revisionist” reading, maintaining that Hobbes was completely favorable to religious tolerance. Second, I propose a reading of the text from the Hobbesian concept of religion, reconstructing this concept with the characterizations present in Leviathan. Finally, the two lines of interpretation are contrasted with this Hobbesian concept of religion, determining in what sense it is possible to understand Hobbes’s work as favorable to religious tolerance.

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