
Steven Nadler on Spinoza on Free Speech
Philosophy Bites
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Is It Anacistic to Expect Him to Encompass Civil Disobedience?
Spinoza was reacting to a very personal a his friend, adion korbach. Korbach had attacked religion and put spinoza's name on the cover of his book. Spinoza saw conservative elements in the dutch reformed church as usurping political power. The subtitle of tha theological political treatise is 'the freedom to philosophize'
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