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The Tractatus Theologico-Politicus (TTP) or Theologico-Political Treatise, is a 1670 work of philosophy written in Latin by the Dutch philosopher Benedictus Spinoza (1632–1677). The book was one of the most important and controversial texts of the early modern period .
Portrait of Baruch Spinoza, 1665. Tractatus Politicus (TP) or Political Treatise (PT) was the last and incomplete treatise written by Baruch Spinoza. It was written in 1675–77 and published posthumously in 1677.
Baruch Spinoza, Tractatus Theologico-Politicus (1670-1671). Clandestinely published in 1693 as De rechtzinnige theologant, of godgeleerde staatkundige verhandelinge (The Orthodox Theologian, or Theological-Political Treatise) by Henricus Koenraad (false imprint) in Amsterdam [3] Beschrijvingen van de Oorlogen in Candia (1671)
In 1675, Albert Burgh, a friend and possibly former pupil of Spinoza, wrote to him repudiating his teachings and announcing his conversion to the Catholic Church. Burgh attacked Spinoza's views as expressed in the Theological-Political Treatise and tried to persuade Spinoza to embrace Catholicism. In response, Spinoza, at the request of Burgh's ...
Yitzhak Yohanan Melamed [1] [2] (Hebrew: יצחק מלמד; born March 7, 1968) [3] is an Israeli philosopher and a leading scholar of Spinoza and modern philosophy. He is the Charlotte Bloomberg Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. [4]
Mendelssohn took from Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise (1670) that Judaism is not a revealed religion but a belief based on law, and that religious toleration and liberty of conscience are essential goals. [13] [14] Jean Meslier: 1664–1729: French: Roman Catholic priest, philosopher and first atheist writer since ancient times.
Ravven believes that Spinoza's philosophy is the best starting point for trying to integrate the evidence emerging from the new brain sciences into a viable model of the basic moral brain, the optimal route to its development, and the implications of such a view for how social, legal, political, and other institutions and practices might to be ...
He is perhaps best remembered now as the author of the first published attack on Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In Academic study of Western esotericism Thomasius is sometimes accredited as an intellectual watershed leading to the demise of the previously hegemonic Prisca theologia .