A Theologico-Political Treatise—Part 4
by Benedictus de Spinoza
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About this eBook
- Author
- Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677
- Title
- A Theological-Political Treatise [Part IV]
- Credits
- Joseph B. Yesselman. HTML version by Al Haines.
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- B: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion
- Subject
- Political science -- Early works to 1800
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 992
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/992
- Release Date
- July 16, 1997
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.A Theologico-Political Treatise
- 2.[16:0] CHAPTER XVI - OF THE FOUNDATIONS OF A STATE; OF THE NATURAL AND CIVIL RIGHTS OF INDIVIDUALS; AND OF THE RIGHTS OF THE SOVEREIGN POWER.
- 3.[17:0] CHAPTER XVII - IT IS SHOWN THAT NO ONE CAN, OR NEED, TRANSFER ALL HIS RIGHTS TO THE SOVEREIGN POWER. OF THE HEBREW REPUBLIC, AS IT WAS DURING THE LIFETIME OF MOSES, AND AFTER HIS DEATH, TILL THE FOUNDATION OF THE MONARCHY; AND OF ITS EXCELLENCE. LASTLY, OF THE CAUSES WHY THE THEOCRATIC REPUBLIC FELL, AND WHY IT COULD HARDLY HAVE CONTINUED WITHOUT DISSENSION.
- 4.[18:0] CHAPTER XVIII - FROM THE COMMONWEALTH OF THE HEBREWS, AND THEIR HISTORY, CERTAIN POLITICAL DOCTRINES ARE DEDUCED.
- 5.[19:0] CHAPTER XIX - IT IS SHOWN THAT THE RIGHT OVER MATTERS SPIRITUAL LIES WHOLLY WITH THE SOVEREIGN, AND THAT THE OUTWARD FORMS OF RELIGION SHOULD BE IN ACCORDANCE WITH PUBLIC PEACE, IF WE WOULD OBEY GOD ARIGHT.
- 6.[20:0] CHAPTER XX - THAT IN A FREE STATE EVERY MAN MAY THINK WHAT HE LIKES, AND SAY WHAT HE THINKS.
- 7.AUTHOR'S ENDNOTES TO THE THEOLOGICO-POLITICAL TREATISE
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