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    • Author

      Mogens Lærke (senior Researcher, Senior Researcher, Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique (cnrs), France)

    • Book Format

      Hardcover

    • Publisher

      Oxford University Press

    • Published

      April 2021

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      Spinoza and the Freedom of Philosophizing

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      Spinoza and the Freedom of Philosophizing is a study of freedom of speech, good government, civic responsibility, public education, and the foundations of religion and society, as seen through the eyes of seventeenth-century Dutch philosopher Spinoza. During the Golden Age of the Dutch Republic, a new kind of public sphere emerged. Courtly structures of political advice made room for new, republican forms of public consultation between the sovereign powers and the general citizenry. Missing, however, were guidelines for how and when to address questions of public concern and how to form unprejudiced citizens in possession of their own free judgment, capable of speaking up for themselves in public deliberations with the common interest in view. The book argues that Spinoza's conception of the freedom of philosophizing, and the systematic political theory he developed to defend it in his 1670 Theological-Political Treatise, were conceived to provide just such guidelines. It shows

      how Spinoza understood the freedom of philosophizing as a collective style of reasoning and argument based on mutual teaching and advising, a model for the public sphere in a free republic. It studies the conditions under which such a public sphere of free philosophizing could flourish, how it would require popular reform of public education and democratic reorganization of the relations between political counsel and sovereign command. It also shows how Spinoza designed theological and political doctrines of universal faith and social contract in order to promote true religion and a sense of civic duty, and asserted the state's right over sacred matters as a means to ensure mutual toleration in a multi-religious society.

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      • Author

        Mogens Lærke (senior Researcher, Senior Researcher, Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique (cnrs), France)

      • Book Format

        Hardcover

      • Publisher

        Oxford University Press

      • Published

        April 2021

      • Weight

        772g

      • Dimensions

        16.1 x 23.7 x 3.1 cm

      • ISBN

        9780192895417

      • ISBN-10

        0192895419

      • Eden Code

        5591766

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      • Author/Creator: Mogens Lærke (senior Researcher, Senior Researcher, Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique (cnrs), France)

      • ISBN: 9780192895417

      • Publisher: Oxford University Press

      • Release Date: April 2021

      • Weight: 772g

      • Dimensions: 16.1 x 23.7 x 3.1 cm

      • Eden Code: 5591766


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