Publikace na Evangelická teologická fakulta |
2015
Abstrakt
The article deals with the concept of the secular state by Thomas Hobbes and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Hobbes, standing in the tradition of English empiricism and social contract theory, disallows the autonomous role of religion and reduces it to a mere instrument of politics, which he in turn subordinates to the economic goals.
To the contrary, Hegel sees the state and religion as two independent and irreducible manifestations of human freedom, which allows humans to transcend the sheer economic interests. The article aims to show the way in which the both representations of the relationship of the state and religion are rooted in two different notions of humanity.