A Theologico Political TreatiseRational examination of the Old Testament to show that freedom of thought and speech is consistent with the religious life. True religion consists in practice of simple piety, independent of philosophical speculation. Also unfinished essay on theory of government founded on common consent. One of Spinoza's most important works. |
Contents
Of Prophets | |
Of the Vocation of the Hebrews and Whether the Gift | |
Of the Ceremonial | |
Of the Interpretation of Scripture | |
Of the Authorship of the Pentateuch and the Other | |
An Examination of the Remaining Books of the | |
Of The True Original of the Divine Law and Wherefore | |
Definitions of Faith the Faith and the Foundations | |
Of the Foundations of a State of the Natural and Civil | |
From the Commonwealth of the Hebrews and Their | |
That In A Free State Every Man May Think What | |
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A Theologico-Political Treatise, and a Political Treatise Benedictus de Spinoza Limited preview - 2007 |
A Theologico-Political Treatise, and a Political Treatise Benedictus de Spinoza Limited preview - 2005 |
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