Tractatus theologico-politicus
by Benedictus de Spinoza, Seymour Feldman · first published 1670
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"This new edition of Samuel Shirley's translation of the Theological-Political Treatise - a revision of that published by E. J. Brill in 1991, based on Gebhart's Heidelberg edition of 1925 - is accompanied by a new Introduction and Notes prepared especially for this volume by Seymour Feldman. Included also are Spinoza's supplementary notes, and an index of Biblical references."--BOOK JACKET.
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…also some more obvious things that almost everyone with a college education has read, like Descartes' Meditations or Plato's Republic. On Fate, Alexander of Aphrodisias + Problems from Locke, Mackie Tractatus Theologico-Politicus, Spinoza + The Courtier and the Heretic, Stewart (on Spinoza and Leibniz) Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Hume Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, Kant Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics,…
on “Ask HN: Best Philosophical Books?” ↗…different but the actual definitions given and structure of the argument are very similar. Wittgenstein even alludes to this in the name Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, as Spinoza had another work titled Tractatus Theologico-Politicus. Unfortunately it seems Wittgenstein didn't understand (or chose to reject) the second half of the treatise he borrowed from (which very roughly is "given this model of the world/ethics, a model of emotion,…
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