Spinoza Political Theological writing --live reading(8pm central)

This group will be reading a lesser known work by the 17th Century Spinoza called Tractatus Theologico Politicus.

--from wikipedia
Spinoza expounds his views on contemporary Jewish and Christian religion and critically analyses the Bible which underlies both. He argues what the best roles for state and religion should be and concludes that a degree of democracy and freedom of speech and religion works best, like in Amsterdam, while the state remains paramount within reason. The goal of the state is to guarantee the freedom of the citizens. Religious leaders should not meddle in politics. Spinoza prepares the ground for his work on metaphysics and psychology, Ethics, published posthumously in 1677, for which he anticipated harsh criticism.

link to the text.

https://libgen.rocks/ads.php?md5=07962a69c713eb5621d43670d252440c

https://archive.org/details/tractatustheolo00spingoog/page/n22/mode/2up