Welcome. I might like to suggest that most of Spinoza's best work were his religious/theological writings....
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Oct 13, 2001 7:39 pm
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I would like to have your ideas on a very crucial point of science,which I describe briefly below. I am working on this subject as a project and will be ...
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Hi, You have posted to 1 of 4 related groups for discussing and Slow Reading the works of Spinoza. If you are not already aware, you can go to the following...
Dear All, I have just started to read Spinoza's TTP, I am reading it with a Saturday afternoon reading group. We are on Chapter 2. I find Spinoza's treatment...
Hi Lizz, ... <snip> Others here may have different thoughts on a useful order in which Spinoza's works might be read for the first time. I would suggest the ...
Hi Ethel, ... <snip> ... <snip> It's not clear to me to what chronological order you refer. I mentioned the order in which they were written and had in mind...
I thought the site gave the answer. I always thought chronological order in documents meant order of publication. If it's not published, how can one read it?...
Please forgive the intrusion on this list. I have modified my web site and included the following note there and which I also wish to apply to any past ...
Here's an excerpt from TTP that responds somewhat to an inquiry Ethel made about Spinoza's Hebrew Grammar, and if I'm not mistaken, it also shows Spinoza's...
... ============== Please add additional research to all this. You can get a translation of Crescas's THE REFUTATION OF CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES and W.Z.Harvey's...
Normally I have my lists configured such that new members are automatically placed on moderated status. I do this as a precaution against those people who use...
Notes and Observations on Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise PREFACE Paragraph 1, Page 3 (Elwes Translation, Dover Publ) The force of this opening...
Notes and Observations on Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise PREFACE (Elwes trans., Dover Publ) Paragraph 1, Page 4 Reduction to absurdity: not only are...
... ========================================================= Well, I'm in the same boat you are. Only luckily somehow, some miracle, we now have a group...
Notes and Observations on Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise PREFACE (Elwes Trans., Dover Publ) Pargraph 3, Page 4-5 Spinoza does not hold a very...
... ===================== Again I shudder at the word "masses" too. But I'm deceiving myself because I do shudder at "the masses". I shuddered at the age of 18...
Preface (Elwes Trans., Dover Publ.) Paragraph 2, Page 5-6 Here we see how religion can play a dangerous role in statecraft. A tyrannical regime can hijack...
Preface Paragraph 3, Pages 6-7 Religion gone awry. The causal framework seems to be something like this: there is a demand for ecclesiastics, and a need to...
... Something bothers me about referring to a group of individual human beings as "masses." This results from the belief that each individual has intrinsic...
... ================ EXACTLY. My question is did the founding fathers read TTP or did they read the Old Testament the way Spinoza did. Since I did read the Old...
... =============== I take it differently. He's cleansing himself before the world before he proceeds to analyze. He researches himself and lays it all out so...
My father lives in Israel. He has problems reading standard books because the font is too small. In a recent telephone conversation he asked that I try to...
The only book on tape I know of is not really a book on tape, but a narration of a scholarly take on Spinoza, interspersed with quotes from Spinoza (from all...
Ethel raises the point that Spinoza did not write one book for the elite theologians and another for the layman. He wrote one book, in Latin, for all those ...
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