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Theological-Political Treatise

Tractatus theologico-politicus

Retrato anónimo de Spinoza (Wolfenbüttel)
byBaruch Spinoza

A defence of the freedom to philosophise in twenty chapters. The first fifteen subject the Bible to historical and philological examination: prophecy as imagination, the election of the Hebrews as political prosperity, miracles as ignorance of causes, the authorship of the Pentateuch and the historical books, the method of interpreting Scripture by Scripture itself. The last five ground the state in natural right, identified with power, analyse the Hebrew theocracy and conclude that the end of the state is freedom and that everyone must be able to think what he wishes and say what he thinks. It is one of the founding works of modern biblical criticism and of liberal and democratic political thought.

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Authorship note

Published anonymously in 1670 by Jan Rieuwertsz in Amsterdam with the false imprint 'Hamburgi, apud Henricum Künraht'. Around 1676 Spinoza added marginal notes (adnotationes) not printed in his lifetime. Unauthorised Dutch translation: De rechtzinnige theologant (1693).

Editions and translations

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English

  • Theological-Political Treatise — Baruch Spinoza

    Theological-Political Treatise

    Cambridge University Press, 2007

    Translation: Michael Silverthorne y Jonathan Israel

    ISBN 9780521530972

  • Theological-Political Treatise — Baruch Spinoza

    Theological-Political Treatise

    Hackett, 2001

    Translation: Samuel Shirley

    ISBN 9780872206076

  • The Theologico-Political Treatise; A Political Treatise (Works, vol. 1) — Baruch Spinoza

    The Theologico-Political Treatise; A Political Treatise (Works, vol. 1)

    Dover Publications, 1951

    Translation: R. H. M. Elwes

    ISBN 9780486202495

  • A Theologico-Political Treatise (The Chief Works, vol. 1)

    George Bell & Sons, Londres, 1883

    Translation: R. H. M. Elwes

    Dominio público; Project Gutenberg #989-992.

  • Tractatus Theologico-Politicus

    Trübner, Londres, 1862

    Translation: Robert Willis

    Dominio público; en Wikisource.

Latín

  • Tractatus theologico-politicus

    Jan Rieuwertsz, Ámsterdam («Hamburgi, apud Henricum Künraht»), 1670

    Primera edición, anónima.

Français

  • Traité théologico-politique (Œuvres de Spinoza, t. II)

    Charpentier, París, 1861

    Translation: Émile Saisset

    Dominio público; en Wikisource.

Español

Other works by Baruch Spinoza

Sources

  • Spinoza, Benedictus de. Tractatus theologico-politicus. «Hamburgi» [Ámsterdam], 1670 (texto latino en Wikisource, ed. Gebhardt); A Theologico-Political Treatise, trad. R. H. M. Elwes (1883), Project Gutenberg #989-992.

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