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Theologico-Political Treatise (Complete)

Author : Benedict de Spinoza
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1613105886
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Theologico-Political Treatise (Complete) written by Benedict de Spinoza and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune's greedily coveted favours, they are consequently, for the most part, very prone to credulity. The human mind is readily swayed this way or that in times of doubt, especially when hope and fear are struggling for the mastery, though usually it is boastful, over - confident, and vain. This as a general fact I suppose everyone knows, though few, I believe, know their own nature; no one can have lived in the world without observing that most people, when in prosperity, are so over-brimming with wisdom (however inexperienced they may be), that they take every offer of advice as a personal insult, whereas in adversity they know not where to turn, but beg and pray for counsel from every passer-by. No plan is then too futile, too absurd, or too fatuous for their adoption; the most frivolous causes will raise them to hope, or plunge them into despair - if anything happens during their fright which reminds them of some past good or ill, they think it portends a happy or unhappy issue, and therefore (though it may have proved abortive a hundred times before) style it a lucky or unlucky omen. Anything which excites their astonishment they believe to be a portent signifying the anger of the gods or of the Supreme Being, and, mistaking superstition for religion, account it impious not to avert the evil with prayer and sacrifice. Signs and wonders of this sort they conjure up perpetually, till one might think Nature as mad as themselves, they interpret her so fantastically. Thus it is brought prominently before us, that superstition's chief victims are those persons who greedily covet temporal advantages; they it is, who (especially when they are in danger, and cannot help themselves) are wont with Prayers and womanish tears to implore help from God: upbraiding Reason as blind, because she cannot show a sure path to the shadows they pursue, and rejecting human wisdom as vain; but believing the phantoms of imagination, dreams, and other childish absurdities, to be the very oracles of Heaven. As though God had turned away from the wise, and written His decrees, not in the mind of man but in the entrails of beasts, or left them to be proclaimed by the inspiration and instinct of fools, madmen, and birds. Such is the unreason to which terror can drive mankind!

A Theologico-Political Treatise Part III (Chapters XI to XV)

Author : Benedict de Spinoza
Publisher : ARC Manor
ISBN 13 : 9781604502152
Total Pages : 56 pages
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Theologico-Political Treatise

Author : Benedictus de Spinoza
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3387007043
Total Pages : 425 pages
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The Selected Works of Baruch de Spinoza

Author : Benedictus de Spinoza
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465520333
Total Pages : 1265 pages
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Download or read book The Selected Works of Baruch de Spinoza written by Benedictus de Spinoza and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 1265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selections usually need no justifications. Some justification, however, of the treatment accorded Spinoza's Ethics may be necessary in this place. The object in taking the Ethics as much as possible out of the geometrical form, was not to improve upon the author's text; it was to give the lay reader a text of Spinoza he would find pleasanter to read and easier to understand. To the practice of popularization, Spinoza, one may confidently feel, would not be averse. He himself gave a short popular statement of his philosophy in the Political Treatise. The lay reader of philosophy is chiefly, if not wholly, interested in grasping a philosophic point of view. He is not interested in highly meticulous details, and still less is he interested in checking up the author's statements to see if the author is consistent with himself. He takes such consistency, even if unwarrantedly, for granted. A continuous reading of the original Ethics, even on a single topic, is impossible. The subject-matter is coherent, but the propositions do not hang together. By omitting the formal statement of the propositions; by omitting many of the demonstrations and almost all cross-references; by grouping related sections of the Ethics (with selections from the Letters and the Improvement of the Understanding) under sectional headings, the text has been made more continuous. It is the only time, probably, dismembering a treatise actually made it more unified. In an Appendix, the sources of the selections from the Ethics are summarily indicated. It would be a meaningless burden on the text to make full acknowledgments in footnotes. For the same reason, there has been almost no attempt made to show, by means of the conventional devices, the re-arrangements and abridgements that have been made. Every care has been taken not to distort in any way the meaning of the text. And that is all that is important in a volume of this kind. Wherever possible Spinoza's own chapter headings have been retained; and some of the sectional headings have either been taken from, or have been based upon expressions in the text. It would have been more in keeping with contemporary form to use the title On Historical Method or The New History instead of Of the Interpretation of Scripture; a chapter on Race Superiority would sound more important than one on The Vocation of the Hebrews; but such modernizing changes were not made because the aim has been to give the reader a text as faithful to the original as the character of this volume would allow.

A Theologico-Political Treatise and A Political Treatise

Author : Benedict de Spinoza
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486437221
Total Pages : 434 pages
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Download or read book A Theologico-Political Treatise and A Political Treatise written by Benedict de Spinoza and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2004-11-10 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two important works by one of philosophy's most original and penetrating thinkers appear in this volume. Spinoza's "Theologico-Political Treatise" presents an eloquent plea for religious liberty, demonstrating that true religion consists of the practice of simple piety, independent of philosophical speculation. He examines the Bible at length to show that freedom of thought and of speech are consistent with the religious life. In the unfinished "Political Treatise," the author develops a theory of government founded on common consent.

Spinoza's Theologico-Political Treatise

Author : Theo Verbeek
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135189854X
Total Pages : 333 pages
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Download or read book Spinoza's Theologico-Political Treatise written by Theo Verbeek and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the first accessible analysis of Spinoza's Tractatus Theologico-politicus, situating the work in the context of Spinoza’s general philosophy and its 17th-century historical background. According to Spinoza it is impossible for a being to be infinitely perfect and to have a legislative will. This idea, demonstrated in the Ethics, is presupposed and further elaborated in the Tractatus Theologico-politicus. It implies not only that on the level of truth all revealed religion is false, but also that all authority is of human origin and that all obedience is rooted in a political structure. The consequences for authority as it is used in a religious context are explored: the authority of Scripture, the authority of particular interpretations of Scripture, and the authority of the Church. Verbeek also explores the work of two other philosophers of the period - Hobbes and Descartes - to highlight certain peculiarities of Spinoza's position, and to show the contrasts between their theories.

Shadow of Spirit

Author : Philippa Berry
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134920040
Total Pages : 290 pages
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Download or read book Shadow of Spirit written by Philippa Berry and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-04-27 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By illuminating the striking affinity between the most innovative aspects of postmodern thought and religious mystical discourse, Shadow of Spirit challenges the long established assumption that western thought is committed to nihilism. This collection of essays by internationally recognised scholars explores the implications of the fascination with the `sacred', `divine' or `infinite' which characterizes much contemporary thought. It shows how these concerns have surfaced in the work of Derrida, Baudrillard, Lyotard, Kristeva, Irigaray and others. Examining the connection between this postmodern `turn' and the current search for a new discourse of ethics and politics, it also stresses the contribution made by feminist thought to this unexpected intellectual direction.

Theologico-Political Treatise

Author : Baruch Spinoza
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1585105325
Total Pages : 459 pages
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Download or read book Theologico-Political Treatise written by Baruch Spinoza and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2004-10-01 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete translation in English of this modern text, with substantive apparatus to allow the student and serious reader to grapple in a meaningful way with this seminal text. The text includes ample footnotes, Spinoza’s annotations, an interpretative essay, glossary and other indices. Focus Philosophical Library translations are close to and are non-interpretative of the original text, with the notes and a glossary intending to provide the reader with some sense of the terms and the concepts as they were understood by Spinoza’s immediate audience. This is the paperback edition.

The Collected Works

Author : Benedictus de Spinoza
Publisher : Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book The Collected Works written by Benedictus de Spinoza and published by Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE COLLECTED WORKS of Spinoza: ETHICS, THE PHILOSOPHY, A THEOLOGICO-POLITICAL TREATISE Spinoza is one of the most important philosophers—and certainly the most radical—of the early modern period. Spinoza’s ultimate intention is reveal the truth about Scripture and religion, and thereby to undercut the political power exercised in modern states by religious authorities. He also defends, at least as a political ideal, the tolerant, secular, and democratic polity. His extremely naturalistic views on God, the world, the human being and knowledge serve to ground a moral philosophy centered on the control of the passions leading to virtue and happiness. They also lay the foundations for a strongly democratic political thought and a deep critique of the pretensions of Scripture and sectarian religion. Of all the philosophers of the seventeenth century, perhaps none have more relevance today than Spinoza.

A Theologico Political Treatise

Author : Benedictus de Spinoza
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781419203695
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book A Theologico Political Treatise written by Benedictus de Spinoza and published by . This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No reader of the New Testament can doubt that the Apostles were prophets; but as a prophet does not always speak by revelation, but only, at rare intervals, as we showed at the end of Chap. I., we may fairly inquire whether the Apostles wrote their Epistles as prophets, by revelation and express mandate, as Moses, Jeremiah, and others did, or whether only as private individuals or teachers, especially as Paul, in Corinthians xiv:6, mentions two sorts of preaching.

Spinoza's 'Theological-Political Treatise'

Author : Yitzhak Y. Melamed
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139493531
Total Pages : 309 pages
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Download or read book Spinoza's 'Theological-Political Treatise' written by Yitzhak Y. Melamed and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-18 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise was published anonymously in 1670 and immediately provoked huge debate. Its main goal was to claim that the freedom of philosophizing can be allowed in a free republic and that it cannot be abolished without also destroying the peace and piety of that republic. Spinoza criticizes the traditional claims of revelation and offers a social contract theory in which he praises democracy as the most natural form of government. This Critical Guide presents essays by well-known scholars in the field and covers a broad range of topics, including the political theory and the metaphysics of the work, religious toleration, the reception of the text by other early modern philosophers and the relation of the text to Jewish thought. It offers valuable perspectives on this important and influential work.

Reflections on Russell

Author : Chad Trainer
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527579395
Total Pages : 275 pages
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Conflict, Power, and Multitude in Machiavelli and Spinoza

Author : Filippo Del Lucchese
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441153799
Total Pages : 224 pages
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Download or read book Conflict, Power, and Multitude in Machiavelli and Spinoza written by Filippo Del Lucchese and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-10-20 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conflict, Power and Multitude in Machiavelli and Spinoza explores Spinoza's political philosophy by confronting it with that of Niccolò Machiavelli. Filippo Del Lucchese conducts a study of the relationship between Machiavelli and Spinoza from a perspective at once philosophical, historical and political. The book begins by showing how closely tied the two thinkers are in relation to realism. Del Lucchese then goes on to examine the theme of conflict as a crucial element of an understanding of Machiavelli and Spinoza's conceptions of modernity. The book concludes with an examination of the concept of 'multiplicity' and 'plural' expressions of politics, namely Machiavelli's popolo and Spinoza's multitudo. Overall, the Machiavelli-Spinoza axis offers a fruitful perspective through which to analyse the relationship between contending ideas of modernity from a historical point of view, and provides an original point of departure for discussing some key theoretical, political and juridical notions that have resurfaced in contemporary debates.

Leibowitz or God's Absence

Author : Daniel Horowitz
Publisher : Academic Studies PRess
ISBN 13 : 1644697963
Total Pages : 155 pages
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The Chief Works of Benedict de Spinoza: Introduction. Tractatus theologico-politicus. Tractatus politicus

Author : Benedictus de Spinoza
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 468 pages
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Understanding Understanding

Author : Richard Mason
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791486125
Total Pages : 141 pages
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The Philosophical Foundations of Management Thought

Author : Jean-Etienne Joullié
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739186035
Total Pages : 363 pages
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Download or read book The Philosophical Foundations of Management Thought written by Jean-Etienne Joullié and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book proposes a review of important Western philosophies and their significance for managers, management academics, and management consultants. Management theories taught in management schools that managers and consultants are supposed to apply are built upon different perspectives of the world, man, and society that are important not so much for what they lead to, but for what they assume. Although rarely made explicit, these assumptions cannot be reconciled and are at the source of many incompatibilities that management academia has been busy ignoring or obfuscating. The ability to evaluate critically these perspectives is essential to managers if they are to make sense of what experts profess, however. Moreover, since management is primarily an exercise in communication, managing is impossible in the darkness of an imprecise language, in the absence of moral references or in the senseless outline of a world without intellectual bases. Managing is an applied philosophical activity; any attempt at repairing management academia and the practices it has produced must accept this conclusion as its premise.