Religion and Power in Spinoza: Essays on the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus

ISBN-13: 9783034338073 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 154 str.

Josep Olesti; Jörg Rudolf Zimmer

Opis

This volume analyzes in detail Spinoza's reasoning in Tractatus theologico-politicus, identifies allies and enemies in its historical context, and explores its more or less obvious connection with the Ethica.

Spis treści

Devine decrees as eternal truths in the TTP - Prophecy in the TTP in light of Averroes' Epitome oft he Parva Naturalia - Imperium in imperio - The palace oft the ramparts: Spinoza's strategems to defend sovereignty from the seditious opinion oft he clergy - A virtual dialogue between Baruch Spinoza, Yehuda Halevi, Moses Mendelssohn and Shlomo Mimon on the ideas of History and Tolerance - Spinoza in the Vormärz Period

O autorze

Josep Olesti is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Girona since 1992 and full member of the Institute of Catalan Studies. He paid attention mostly to the Early Modern Philosophy, mainly 17th century, and published papers on, among others, Hobbes, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Bayle and Kant. He translated into Catalan the Leibniz' Nouveaux Essais sur l'enttendement humain (1997), Discours de métaphysique/Monadologie (2018) and Spinoza's Ethica (2013)

Jörg Zimmer is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Girona since 1993. His main research fields are aesthetics, theory and history of dialectics and Classical German philosophy.