Spinoza, Before and After theRampjaar

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ID4958879
AutoresBartholomew Begley (0000-0002-1486-2352, Department of Philosophy, Theology and Music, Dublin City University, All Hallows College, Dublin 9, Ireland, autor correspondente)
Ano2022
Volume27
Fascículo6
Páginas563-582
Data de publicação2022-08-18
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe European Legacy (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1084-8770 • E-ISSN: 1470-1316
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10848770.2022.2083912
OpenAlexW4285796987
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas15

Up to 1670, when the Theological-Political Treatise was published, Spinoza supported Johan De Witt’s government, against the House of Orange and the orthodox Calvinists. By 1676, while writing the Political Treatise, that fight had been lost, and Spinoza was now positively opposed to the sovereign of his country. Scholars argue that the violence that marked the intervening “year of disaster” of 1672 saw security prioritised in the Political Treatise, where the Theological-Political Treatise had focused on freedom. This essay contests this view. Analysing the Political Treatise’s response to contemporary events, and comparing the two books, it sees the Political Treatise as less concerned than the earlier text with the stability of the sovereign, and more concerned with the subjects’ freedom from oppression by the sovereign: more than a dispassionate treatise on the organization of the state, it is a plea for the role of the ordinary citizen, written in response to authoritarian times

Authoritarianism · Democracy · Oppression · Plea · Political freedom · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Sovereignty · Law · Marxism and Critical Theory · Philosophy · Political Theology and Sovereignty · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought

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