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130. - Moses

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 January 2025

By
Michael L. Morgan
Edited by
Karolina Hübner  and
Justin Steinberg
Karolina Hübner
Affiliation:
Cornell University, New York
Justin Steinberg
Affiliation:
Cornell University, New York
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Summary

Spinoza’s TTP has several purposes, among which are to defend his own views about “true religion” and how it differs from organized religious communities, about the nature of the state and political organization and its chief purposes, and about the relation between religion and the state. Although he refers once to his audience as “philosophical readers,” his primary audience are clergy who take Scripture to be authoritative and yet who are inclined to toleration and freedom of thought and expression. In short, in this work, Spinoza seeks to use Scripture to defend freedom of thought and expression by distinguishing the primary purposes of religion, on the one hand, and politics, on the other.

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The Cambridge Spinoza Lexicon , pp. 377 - 379
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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Atlas, S. (1954). Moses in the philosophy of Maimonides, Spinoza, and Solomon Maimon. Hebrew Union College Annual, 25, 369–400.Google Scholar
Frankel, S. (2001). The invention of liberal theology: Spinoza’s theological-political analysis of Moses and Jesus. Review of Politics, 63, 287–315.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Nadler, S. (2011). A Book Forged in Hell: Spinoza’s Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age. Princeton University Press.Google Scholar
Sacks, E. (2014). Spinoza, Maimonides and the politics of prophecy. Jewish Studies Quarterly, 21, 67–98.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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