Behemoth; or, The Long Parliament
- Language:
- English
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- Complete work
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- Extent:
- ~81,500 words · 387 passages
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What it is about
Behemoth (1668): the history of the English civil war, by Hobbes.
Context and history
If Leviathan is the state, Behemoth is disorder. Hobbes explains how England came to kill its king, and the blame is shared out among preachers, universities and lawyers. Charles II forbade its publication; it appeared posthumously.
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maintenance of the Pope's doctrine, and of his authority over kings and their subjects, by school-divines ; who, striving to make good many points of faith incomprehensible, and calling in the philosophy of Aristotle to their assistance, wrote great books of school-divinity, which no man else, nor they themselves, are able to understand ; as any man may perceive that shall consider the writings of Peter Lombard, or Scotus that wrote commentaries upon him, or of Suarez, or any other school-divine of later times. Which kind of learning nevertheless hath been much admired by two sorts of men, otherwise prudent enough ; tie one of which sorts were those that were already devoted and really affectionate to the Roman Church; for they believed the doctrine before, but admired the arguments because they understood them not, and yet found the conclusions to their mind. The other sort were negligent men, that had rather admire with others, than
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