Spinoza on Freedon, Individual Rights and Public Power (english version)
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This paper aims at contributing to a better understanding of Spinoza’s mostconspicuous political doctrines: his rejection of classical contractualism, hisdoctrine of the equivalence of right and power, his description of the limitsof government either as logical limitations or as restrictions, not of power,but of impotence, and his defence of democracy as the most natural andmost rational form of the state. Also, two alleged paradoxes that permeateSpinoza’s political thought are solved: the conflict between a naturalisticapproach and a discourse whose purpose is to shed light on the grounds ofpolitical legitimacy, and the tension between the dynamics of freedom andthe dynamics of power. Far from obsolete, Spinoza’s political philosophycomes to light as able to meet the demands of the contemporary world.
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