Against jurisprudential reductions of Spinoza's thinking to a kind of eccentric version of Hobbes, this book argues that Spinoza's theory of natural right contains an important idea of absolute freedom, which would be inconceivable within Hobbes' own schema. Spinoza famously thought that the universe and all of the beings and events within it are fully determined by their causes. This has led jurisprudential commentators to believe that Spinoza has no room for natural right - in the sense that whatever happens by definition has a 'right' to happen. But, although this book demonstrates how...
Against jurisprudential reductions of Spinoza's thinking to a kind of eccentric version of Hobbes, this book argues that Spinoza's theory of natura...
Against jurisprudential reductions of Spinoza s thinking to a kind of eccentric version of Hobbes, this book argues that Spinoza s theory of natural right contains an important idea of absolute freedom, which would be inconceivable within Hobbes own schema. Spinoza famously thought that the universe and all of the beings and events within it are fully determined by their causes. This has led jurisprudential commentators to believe that Spinoza has no room for natural right in the sense that whatever happens by definition has a right to happen. But, although this book demonstrates how...
Against jurisprudential reductions of Spinoza s thinking to a kind of eccentric version of Hobbes, this book argues that Spinoza s theory of natura...
