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Political Treatise
Tractatus politicus
A treatise of political theory which, unlike the Theological-Political Treatise, leaves biblical exegesis aside and studies how monarchy, aristocracy and democracy must be organised so that peace and freedom do not depend on the virtue of rulers. It starts from the idea that human actions are to be understood, not laughed at, lamented or detested, and that each one's right extends as far as his power. It remained unfinished just as it was to deal with democracy, the form of government he considered most absolute.
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Authorship note
Written between 1675 and 1677 and broken off by the author's death in chapter XI, devoted to democracy; published in the Opera posthuma (1677).
Editions and translations
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English
Baruch Spinoza
A Political Treatise (The Chief Works, vol. 1)
The Conscious LibraryA Political Treatise (The Chief Works, vol. 1)
George Bell & Sons, Londres, 1883
Translation: R. H. M. Elwes
Dominio público.
Latín
Baruch Spinoza
Tractatus politicus, en B. d. S. Opera posthuma
The Conscious LibraryTractatus politicus, en B. d. S. Opera posthuma
Jan Rieuwertsz, Ámsterdam, 1677
Français
Baruch Spinoza
Traité politique (Œuvres de Spinoza, t. II)
The Conscious LibraryTraité politique (Œuvres de Spinoza, t. II)
Charpentier, París, 1861
Translation: Émile Saisset
Dominio público; en Wikisource.
Deutsch
Politischer Traktat / Tractatus politicus
Felix Meiner, 1994
Translation: Wolfgang Bartuschat
ISBN 9783787311651
Español
Tratado político
Alianza Editorial, 2005
Translation: Atilano Domínguez
ISBN 9788420658018
Other works by Baruch Spinoza
- Ethics, Demonstrated in Geometrical Order · 1677
- Theological-Political Treatise · 1670
- Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect · 1677
- Short Treatise on God, Man and His Well-Being · 1660
- Principles of Cartesian Philosophy · 1663
- Metaphysical Thoughts · 1663
- Compendium of Hebrew Grammar · 1677
- Letters · 1677
- Posthumous Works · 1677
- Apology for leaving the synagogue (lost) · 1656
- Treatise on the Rainbow (lost) · 1676
- Dutch translation of the Old Testament (lost) · 1677
- Algebraic Calculation of the Rainbow (doubtful attribution) · 1687
- Calculation of Chances (doubtful attribution) · 1687
- Treatise of the Three Impostors (spurious) · 1719
- Johannes Colerus' Life of Spinoza · 1705
- Spinoza: A Life (biography by Steven Nadler) · 1999
- The Collected Works of Spinoza (ed. Edwin Curley) · 1985
- Spinoza: Complete Works (trans. Samuel Shirley) · 2002
- Spinoza Opera (ed. Carl Gebhardt) · 1925
- Opere (ed. Filippo Mignini) · 2007
Sources
- Spinoza, Benedictus de. Tractatus politicus, en Opera posthuma, 1677 (texto latino en Wikisource).
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