Lacking his master's certainty in absolute forms without any substance, delighted with all the things he could discover by his senses, Aristotle became the first empiricist, by an large indifferent to anything he couldn't hear, smell or feet The body is the real house of the soul, he insisted, an nothing gets to the soul — not pure knowledge and not any thing else — without the vital mediation of the flesh. (religion-online.org)
We have seen that radical faith knows the transcendent epiphany of Spirit as an alien and repressive form of God, and Hegel would teach us that it is only in the modern world or in an absolute form of faith that consciousness can know that transcendent Spirit is abstract and lifeless, for only by means of a realization of the death of God in human experience can faith be liberated from the authority and the power of the primordial God. (religion-online.org)
He argued, however, that in order to assure peace and prevent a return to the state of nature — which he equates with a state of war — it is essential to set up an absolute form of sovereign authority to which we submit ourselves. (blog.politics.ox.ac.uk)