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Steven Nadler on Spinoza on Free Speech

Philosophy Bites

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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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