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Spinoza and the Freedom of Philosophizing (Hardcover)
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Spinoza and the Freedom of Philosophizing (Hardcover)
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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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