“’The entanglement of religion and politics is inescapable ….’ Using this statement as a point of departure, compare and contrast Hobbes and Tocqueville over their respective treatments of the relationship between ‘political society’ and ‘the holy city’”.
The essay is to be around 1,200 words (minimum 1,000 words).
Provide a bibliography at the end and ONLY use the sources below.
The essay should have at last TWO citations from Hobbes’s Leviathan, and at least TWO citations from Tocqueville’s Democracy in America.
When using the Leviathan and Democracy in America, please keep as closely as possible to the readings I have assigned for our class discussions.
You are also required to study, and use, the following secondary sources for this essay. You must include at least ONE citation to each of the following FOUR secondary sources:
Harrison, Ross, Hobbes, Locke, and Confusion’s Masterpiece (Cambridge University Press, 2002). E-book link: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/sandiego/reader.action?ppg=15&docID=217982&tm=1542325574824
Kries, Douglas, ‘Alexis de Tocqueville on “Civil Religion” and the “Catholic Faith”’, in Civil Religion in Political Thought: Its Perennial Questions and Enduring Relevance in North America, eds. J. von Heyking and R. Weed (Catholic University of America Press, 2012), pp. 167-204. For the essay, YOU ARE ONLY REQUIRED TO STUDY PAGES 170-178, 182-187, 190-200. E-book link: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/sandiego/reader.action?ppg=182&docID=3134953&tm=1542325655948
Mitchell, Joshua, ‘It Is Not Good for Man to be Alone: Tocqueville on Friendship’, in Friendship and Politics: Essays in Political Thought, eds. J von Heyking, R. Avramenko, S. Salkever and T. Heilke (University of Notre Dame, 2008), pp. 268-284. E-book link: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/sandiego/reader.action?ppg=277&docID=3440985&tm=1542325733271
Smith, Travis D., ‘Forgiving Those Not Trespassing Against Us: Hobbes and the Establishment of the Nonsectarian State Church’, in von Heyking and Weed, pp. 93-120. For the essay, YOU ARE ONLY REQUIRED TO STUDY PAGES 93-100, 103-108, AND 114-118. E-book link: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/sandiego/reader.action?ppg=108&docID=3134953&tm=1542325681644
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