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Every Claim for Reason Ever MadeEthics, Benedictus Spinoza
- Social Research: An International Quarterly
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 85, Number 3, Fall 2018
- pp. 585-595
- 10.1353/sor.2018.0032
- Article
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Abstract:
The audacity of Baruch Spinoza's Ethics starts with its title. With it, he announces his intention of reclaiming a project that had long been abandoned in Christian Europe, namely the securing of ethics on purely secular grounds. The work proved to be too radical to publish during his lifetime, but managed, in time, to have the influence his attackers had feared.