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BEYOND TOLERANCE? SPINOZIST PROPOSALS ON PREFERENCES AND JUSTIFICATIONS
BEYOND TOLERANCE? SPINOZIST PROPOSALS ON PREFERENCES AND JUSTIFICATIONS

Author(s): Charles Ramond
Subject(s): Social Philosophy, Political history, Social history, Sociology of Politics, Sociology of Religion
Published by: Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL & Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
Keywords: Spinoza; tolerance; religion;

Summary/Abstract: The term “tolerance”, strictly speaking, does not belong to Spinoza’s vocabulary, and the notion of “tolerance”, in its modern sense, is not part of his concepts either. However, the separation of theology and politics, which is the subject of the Theological-Political Treatise, envelops an even more radical separation between immanence and transcendence. An entirely immanent policy would be indifferent to “values” and “justifications” of any kind (moral, religious, rational). It would be based only on the “accounts” of individual “preferences”. We show that Spinoza’s philosophy can help us conceive (perhaps one day achieve) such a form of radical, or “absolute” democracy.

  • Issue Year: 70/2022
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 271-295
  • Page Count: 25
  • Language: English
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