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Tractatus Theologico-Politicus

Baruch Spinoza

Written by the Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza, the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus or Theologico-Political Treatise was one of the most controversial texts of the early modern period. It was a preemptive defense of Spinoza's later work, Ethics, published posthumously in 1677, for which he anticipated harsh criticism.

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“I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.”

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