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Steven Nadler on Spinoza on Free Speech

Philosophy Bites

CHAPTER

The Civil Sovereign

One of the major principles of his political philosophy is that the sovereign is singular and unique. If there's going to be a public church, ant has to be controlled by the civil sovereign. But it would also be doubly odd for him, because he was obviously cle of the religious law - but they're not the sovereign.

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