Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

Renaissance Era Writers, Responses to the Problem of Evil & the Problem of Pain

In the excerpt below from Leviathan, the English political theorist Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) takes up the problem of evil, focusing his attention on the case of Job. Hobbes asserts that, in the Book of Job, the justification for Job’s affliction centers on God’s power. Hobbes uses this interpretation of Job to further his political philosophy […]

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