Spinoza On State Religion Judaism Christianity

Author : Hermann Cohen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2014
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9657052572

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Spinoza on State & Religion, Judaism & Christianity by Hermann Cohen Pdf

Translation of Hermann Cohen's monograph, Spinoza on State and Religion, Judaism and Christianity. Cohen's essay is a passionate defense of religious rationalism, and especially of Jewish rationalism, against Spinoza, whose philosophy Cohen's viewed both as a moral threat and as an act of treason against his ancestral religion. Cohen defends his conception of the philosophical foundations of Judaism against the thinker for whom religion and philosophy are simply incompatible. Schine's translation and introduction have garnered high praise from our external readers. Like those readers, we believe we are now making an important text available to English-speaking students of modern Jewish thought and philosophy of religion.

Author : Leo Strauss
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1996-11-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226225500

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Spinoza's Critique of Religion by Leo Strauss Pdf

Leo Strauss articulates the conflict between reason and revelation as he explores Spinoza's scientific, comparative, and textual treatment of the Bible. Strauss compares Spinoza's Theologico-political Treatise and the Epistles, showing their relation to critical controversy on religion from Epicurus and Lucretius through Uriel da Costa and Isaac Peyrere to Thomas Hobbes. Strauss's autobiographical Preface, traces his dilemmas as a young liberal intellectual in Germany during the Weimar Republic, as a scholar in exile, and as a leader of American philosophical thought. "[For] those interested in Strauss the political philosopher, and also those who doubt whether we have achieved the 'final solution' in respect to either the character of political science or the problem of the relation of religion to the state." —Journal of Politics "A substantial contribution to the thinking of all those interested in the ageless problems of faith, revelation, and reason." —Kirkus Reviews Leo Strauss (1899-1973) was the Robert Maynard Hutchins Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of political science at the University of Chicago. His contributions to political science include The Political Philosophy of Hobbes, The City and the Man, What is Political Philosophy?, and Liberalism Ancient and Modern.

Author : Heidi M. Ravven,Lenn E. Goodman
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780791488935

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Jewish Themes in Spinoza's Philosophy by Heidi M. Ravven,Lenn E. Goodman Pdf

Breaking new ground in the study of Spinoza's philosophy, the essays in this volume explore the extent to which Spinoza may be considered a Jewish thinker. The rich diversity of Spinoza scholarship today is represented here by a wide range of intellectual methods and scholarly perspectives—from Jewish philosophy and history, to Cartesian-analytic and Continental-Marxist streams of interpretation, to the disciplines of political science and intellectual history. Two questions underlie all the essays: How and in what measure is Spinoza's a Jewish philosophy, and what is its impact on the project of Jewish philosophy as a living enterprise now and for the future? The contributors' varied perspectives afford a highly nuanced vision of the multifaceted Judaic tradition itself, as refracted through the Spinozist lens. What draws them together is the quest for enduring insights that emerge from the philosophy of Spinoza.

Author : Benedictus de Spinoza
Publisher : Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : PKEY:SMP2300000066463

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A Theologico-Political Treatise by Benedictus de Spinoza Pdf

A THEOLOGICO-POLITICAL TREATISE by Spinoza ultimate intention is reveal the truth about Scripture and religion, and thereby to undercut the political power exercised in modern states by religious authorities. He also defends, at least as a political ideal, the tolerant, secular, and democratic polity. Spinoza is one of the most important philosophers—and certainly the most radical—of the early modern period. His extremely naturalistic views on God, the world, the human being and knowledge serve to ground a moral philosophy centered on the control of the passions leading to virtue and happiness. They also lay the foundations for a strongly democratic political thought and a deep critique of the pretensions of Scripture and sectarian religion. Of all the philosophers of the seventeenth century, perhaps none have more relevance today than Spinoza.

Author : Yirmiyahu Yovel
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691237633

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Spinoza and Other Heretics, Volume 1 by Yirmiyahu Yovel Pdf

This ambitious study presents Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) as the most outstanding and influential thinker of modernity—and examines the question of whether he was the "first secular Jew." A number-one bestseller in Israel, Spinoza and Other Heretics is made up of two volumes—The Marrano of Reason and The Adventures of Immanence. Yirmiyahu Yovel shows how Spinoza grounded a philosophical revolution in a radically new principle—the philosophy of immanence, or the idea that this world is all there is—and how he thereby anticipated secularization, the Enlightenment, the disintegration of ghetto life, and the rise of natural science and the liberal-democratic state. The Marrano of Reason finds the origins of the idea of immanence in the culture of Spinoza's Marrano ancestors, Jews in Spain and Portugal who had been forcibly converted to Christianity. Yovel uses their fascinating story to show how the crypto-Jewish life they maintained in the face of the Inquisition mixed Judaism and Christianity in ways that undermined both religions and led to rational skepticism and secularism. He identifies Marrano patterns that recur in Spinoza in a secularized context: a "this-worldly" disposition, a split religious identity, an opposition between inner and outer life, a quest for salvation outside official doctrines, and a gift for dual language and equivocation. This same background explains the drama of the young Spinoza's excommunication from the Jewish community in his native Amsterdam. Convention portrays the Amsterdam Jews as narrow-minded and fanatical, but in Yovel's vivid account they emerge as highly civilized former Marranos with cosmopolitan leanings, struggling to renew their Jewish identity and to build a "new Jerusalem" in the Netherlands.

Author : Carlos Fraenkel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521194570

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Philosophical Religions from Plato to Spinoza by Carlos Fraenkel Pdf

This groundbreaking account of the concept of a philosophical religion traces its history from antiquity to the Enlightenment.

Author : Milad Doueihi
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674050631

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Augustine and Spinoza by Milad Doueihi Pdf

Election and grace are two key concepts that not only have shaped the relations between Judaism and Christianity, but also have formed a cornerstone of the Western philosophical discourse on the evolution and progress of humanity. Though Augustine and Spinoza can be shown to share a methodological approach to these concepts, their conclusions remain radically different. For the Church Father Augustine, grace defines human nature by the potential availability of divine intervention, thus setting the stage for the institutional and political legitimacy of the Church, the Christian state, and its justice. For Spinoza, on the other hand, election represents a unique but local form of divine intervention, marked by geography and historical context. Milad Doueihi maps out the consequences of such an encounter between these two thinkers in terms of their philosophical heritage and its continued relevance for contemporary discussions of religious diversity and autonomy. Augustine asserts a theological foundation for the political, whereas Spinoza radically separates philosophy, and thus authority, from theology in order to solicit a political democracy. In this sharply argued and deeply learned book, Milad Doueihi shows us how interconnections between the two thinkers have come to shape Western philosophy.

Author : Jonathan Israel,Michael Silverthorne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007-05-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139463614

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Spinoza: Theological-Political Treatise by Jonathan Israel,Michael Silverthorne Pdf

Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise (1670) is one of the most important philosophical works of the early modern period. In it Spinoza discusses at length the historical circumstances of the composition and transmission of the Bible, demonstrating the fallibility of both its authors and its interpreters. He argues that free enquiry is not only consistent with the security and prosperity of a state but actually essential to them, and that such freedom flourishes best in a democratic and republican state in which individuals are left free while religious organizations are subordinated to the secular power. His Treatise has profoundly influenced the subsequent history of political thought, Enlightenment 'clandestine' or radical philosophy, Bible hermeneutics, and textual criticism more generally. It is presented here in a translation of great clarity and accuracy by Michael Silverthorne and Jonathan Israel, with a substantial historical and philosophical introduction by Jonathan Israel.

Author : Benedict de Spinoza
Publisher : ARC Manor
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008-05-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1604502134

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A Theologico-Political Treatise Part I (Chapters I to V) by Benedict de Spinoza Pdf

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Author : Joseph Dunner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Philosophers
ISBN : UOM:39015003648097

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Baruch Spinoza and Western Democracy by Joseph Dunner Pdf

Author : Benedict of Spinoza
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1512265160

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A Theologico-Political Treatise Part I by Benedict of Spinoza Pdf

This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.

Author : Zeev Levy
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1433106973

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From Spinoza to Lévinas by Zeev Levy Pdf

Pt. I. Politics and hermeneutics in the philosophies of Spinoza and Mendelssohn -- Tolerance, liberty and equality -- Spinoza's and Maimonides' esoteric writings -- Pt. II. Philosophical hermeneutics -- Biblical hermeneutics : J.G. Herder and J.W. von Goethe -- Hermeneutics and demythologization : Martin Buber and Rudolf Bultmann -- Hermeneutics and tradition -- Pt. III. Ethics and contemporary Jewish thought -- Death, dying, body, and soul -- Does it make sense to speak about Jewish ethics? -- Pt. IV. Lévinas, politics, and contemporary Jewish thought -- Lévinas on state, revolution, and utopia -- Lévinas on secularization -- Lévinas on death and hope.

Author : Benedictus de Spinoza,Seymour Feldman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Free thought
ISBN : 0872206084

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Theological-political Treatise by Benedictus de Spinoza,Seymour Feldman Pdf

Author : Clare Carlisle
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691224190

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Spinoza's Religion by Clare Carlisle Pdf

A bold reevaluation of Spinoza that reveals his powerful, inclusive vision of religion for the modern age Spinoza is widely regarded as either a God-forsaking atheist or a God-intoxicated pantheist, but Clare Carlisle says that he was neither. In Spinoza’s Religion, she sets out a bold interpretation of Spinoza through a lucid new reading of his masterpiece, the Ethics. Putting the question of religion centre-stage but refusing to convert Spinozism to Christianity, Carlisle reveals that “being in God” unites Spinoza’s metaphysics and ethics. Spinoza’s Religion unfolds a powerful, inclusive philosophical vision for the modern age—one that is grounded in a profound questioning of how to live a joyful, fully human life. Like Spinoza himself, the Ethics doesn’t fit into any ready-made religious category. But Carlisle shows how it wrestles with the question of religion in strikingly original ways, responding both critically and constructively to the diverse, broadly Christian context in which Spinoza lived and worked. Philosophy itself, as Spinoza practiced it, became a spiritual endeavor that expressed his devotion to a truthful, virtuous way of life. Offering startling new insights into Spinoza’s famously enigmatic ideas about eternal life and the intellectual love of God, Carlisle uncovers a Spinozist religion that integrates self-knowledge, desire, practice, and embodied ethical life to reach toward our “highest happiness”—to rest in God. Seen through Carlisle’s eyes, the Ethics prompts us to rethink not only Spinoza but also religion itself.

Author : P.J. Bagley
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401726726

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Piety, Peace, and the Freedom to Philosophize by P.J. Bagley Pdf

The 11 essays collected here have been composed by members of the North American Spinoza Society. They exhibit the fruits of the research, investigation and erudition of an array of established scholars and newer students whose interpretations of Spinoza's philosophical doctrines are receiving critical acclaim. This is the first collection in the English language dedicated exclusively to topics, problems or questions raised by the teachings found in Baruch Spinoza's Tractatus theologico-politicus. Divided into the themes of piety, peace, and the freedom to philosophize, the essays treat Spinoza's views on faith and philosophy, miracles, the light of Scripture, political power, religion, the state, the body politic, the idea of tolerance, and philosophic communication, as well as his connections to Walter Benjamin, Blaise Pascal, David Hume, and his Jewish heritage. Readership: An excellent collection for students and scholars studying Spinoza, the history of early modern philosophy, political philosophy, philosophy of religion, and those concerned with theologico-political questions.