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Spinoza and the Freedom of Philosophizing 1st Edition by Mogens Laerke ISBN 9780192895417 0192895419

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Author(s): Mogens Laerke

ISBN(s): 9780192895417, 0192895419

Edition: Hardcover

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Year: 2021

Language: English

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ISBN 10: 0192895419
ISBN 13: 9780192895417
Author: Mogens Laerke

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.

Spinoza and the Freedom of Philosophizing 1st Edition Table of contents:

1. Introduction

The End of the Republic

Elements of Method

Outline of the General Argument

2. Circles and Spheres of Free Philosophizing

Two Controversies

Academic Freedom

Declining a Job Offer: Spinoza’s Answer to Fabritius

Freedom of Conscience I: The Political Circumstances

Freedom of Conscience II: The Intellectual Context

Conclusion

3. Philosophizing

Style: Scriptural and Geometrical

The Natural Light

Mathematics and the Authority of Scripture

Sound Judgment and Right Reason

Conclusion

4. The Apostolic Styles

Preaching from Revelation and Knowledge

The Prophetic Style

The Epistolary Style

Brotherly Advice and Free Philosophizing

Conclusion

5. Authority

The Forms of Authority

Prophetic and Scriptural

Divine and Priestly

Public and Private

The Authority to Teach and Advise

Freedom and Permission

Violent Rule

Conclusion

6. Prejudice, Deception, Flattery

Unfree Philosophizing

Prejudice and the Preoccupied Mind

Integrity and Rational Self-Contentment

Deception with Evil Intent I: The Context

Deception with Evil Intent II: The Systematic Problem

Flattery

The Flatterer, the Violent Ruler, the Mob

Conclusion

7. Counsel, Collegiality, and Democracy

Navigating Free Philosophizing

Public Consultation and Political Resistance

Absolute States: Citizens, Counselors, Sovereign Powers

Consensus and Collegiality

Mob Rule and Free Democracy

Conclusion: Wise Merchants

8. Education

A Topic Saved for Another Place

Texts on Teaching and Learning

Illustrious Schools, Private Latin Schools, Community Colleges

Hobbes on Men of Leisure and Public Instruction

Conclusion: Spinoza vs. Hobbes on Counsel and Education

9. Foundations I: Universal Faith

The Freedom to Disagree

Doctrines of Universal Faith

Faith and Religion: Foundation and Standard

De reliquis, or, On Things Indifferent

The Genesis of Schism

10. Foundations II: The Contract

Doctrines, Narratives, Fictions

Seeds Sown by Hobbes

The Origins of the State: Hobbes and Spinoza

Security as the Standard of Contract

The Contract as a Foundational Narrative

Conclusion

11. The Right Concerning Sacred Matters

Ius circa sacra

Hobbes and Antistius Constans

A Paradox of Church and State?

National Religion

The Hebrew Republic

12. Conclusion: The Dutch Public Sphere

Notes

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