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(PDF) Mortalismo cristiano in Fausto Sozzini e Thomas Hobbes

Mortalismo cristiano in Fausto Sozzini e Thomas Hobbes

2021, Bruniana & Campanelliana

Christian Mortalism in Fausto Sozzini and Thomas Hobbes · Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan received a lot of criticism as soon as it was published. Hobbes was also accused to defend some Socinian teachings, especially about the trinity and the mortality of the soul. Certainly he was very close to the anti-metaphysical perspective of Fausto Sozzini. Neither Lelio nor Fausto Sozzini clearly dealt with topic of mortality of the soul. However they were influenced by Anabaptist thought and probably they shared the doctrine of psycopannichism, i.e. the belief in the sleep of the soul after the death of body. Hobbes’ theological interests came to light in Leviathan, while no trace of them had been in De cive, published about ten years before. Hobbes spent these years in Paris, where he hung out at Mersenne’s circle and right there he came into contact with Socinian thought