Baruch Spinoza
Apology for leaving the synagogue (lost)
Traditional attribution
Apology for leaving the synagogue (lost)
Apología (en español)
A defence which, according to Bayle, he addressed to the Amsterdam rabbis after the herem of 1656. Colerus adds that he replied in writing, in Spanish, to the sentence. If it existed, it would be Spinoza's first writing and the antecedent of his biblical criticism. No copy survives.
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Authorship note
A lost work whose existence is known only through third parties: Pierre Bayle (1697) states that Spinoza wrote in Spanish an apology for his leaving the synagogue containing ideas later included in the Theological-Political Treatise; Colerus could find no trace of it. Existence probable but unverified.
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Other works by Baruch Spinoza
- Ethics, Demonstrated in Geometrical Order · 1677
- Theological-Political Treatise · 1670
- Political Treatise · 1677
- 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
- 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
- Bayle, Pierre. Dictionnaire historique et critique, art. «Spinoza». Rotterdam: Reinier Leers, 1697.
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