This moment in Henri’s religious and political life, which made the deepest impression on the minds of all of Western Europe, is a living historical commentary on Guyot’s position (accepted by him from his teacher A. Fullier) that the idea of the highest action is a force striving to realize.
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On the basis of English Puritanism or Nonconformism, the Independents, Levellers and Quekers grew up. The first spent their lives in complete denial of church tradition, making religion a personal matter for everyone, not only in content, but also in the forms of religious organization. In its democratization religious community, founded by agreement and
By agreeing with all its members, recognizing each of them as a full member of the congregation, affirming and implementing the principle of equality, the Independents created the prototype of a true political democracy! modern times, i.e. republics.
The latter put forward a demand, returning to the idea of primitive Christianity, for the separation of the church from the state. They developed quite consciously and quite rightly an idea that did them great honor in understanding the true freedom of the individual.
They said that without separating the church from the state, the specter of violence, always ready to be realized, threatens the freedoms of the individual, no matter in what forms such freedom is proclaimed. Since then history has confirmed and confirms this truth many times
Finally, the Quekers realized for the first time the thought of Stoicism and the thought of the teachers of Christianity, who, in fact, went backwards, in comparison with Stoicism, under the influence of social pressure - this is the idea of \u200b\u200bthe unnaturalness of slavery.
We have listed only the main, so to speak, implemented ideas. We must however give up the opium glance study the independents and levelers on the fundamental content, the logical consequences of which have not yet been realized by life everywhere, but which have been accepted
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— 228 existing political thinkers and fighters for the universal human liberation movement.
The religious form of the ethical and political radical thoughts of these sects not only did not weaken their significance for the philosophists of the state, but made them more understandable and, so to speak, more tangible for the people, for the people the closest and most understandable thing was the religion. And besides, the persecuted religion becomes a resistance element of the society that professes it. The religious sectarian society of Angsha played precisely such a role in the development of individualism. Voltaire ") well characterized the English sectarians, saying that they themselves choose the most convenient path to heaven. Sectarian ideas were disseminated in many thousands of pamphlets and pamelettes, which now amount to hundreds of volumes in the British Museum. They were of enormous importance for the education of the English people, which until recently has been a stronghold of political individualism in both the old and the new St.
We will focus primarily on those points of the doctrine of the independents and equalizers, which, on the one hand, are adjacent to the individualistic teachings of the 16th century, especially the tyrant fighters 2), and on the other, serve as links in the further development of the individualistic direction. We have seen that the doctrine of the Tyranomachus, which is in favor of absolutism, is heavily colored with a religious tint.
Throughout the Middle Ages, religious literature in Catholic, perkal processing was also a vehicle for political doctrines. The liberation struggle continued on the same grounds a little later. Even in the depths
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2) Or tyranomachus. See the first part of this book.
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