Single Idea 12316

[catalogued under 25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 2. Religion in Society]

Full Idea

For the philosophers of the Enlightenment politics is strictly the affair of humankind, an immanent practice from which recourse to the All Mighty's providential organization had to be discarded.

Gist of Idea

For Enlightenment philosophers, God was no longer involved in politics

Source

Alain Badiou (Briefings on Existence [1998], Prol)

Book Reference

Badiou,Alain: 'Briefings on Existence', ed/tr. Madarsz,Norman [SUNY 2006], p.22