This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Written by the philosopher and pantheist baruch spinoza, the theologicopolitical treatise or tractatus theologicopoliticus was an early criticism of religious intolerance and a defense of secular government. Also included are selections from other works by spinoza, chosen by curley to make the ethics easier to understand, and a substantial introduction that gives an overview of spinozas life and the main. Discover delightful childrens books with prime book box, a subscription that. Please read our short guide how to send a book to kindle. It was a preemptive defense of spinozas later work, ethics, published posthumously in 1677, for which he anticipated harsh criticism. Its premises are that substances exist and are conceived through themselves, and that qualities or states exist and are conceived through something else. Thomas hobbes y baruch spinoza at ideas y movimientos. And then a history, distinguishing the books by the names of their subjects. From these spinoza seems to infer that we can have legitimate thoughts. Out of these cookies, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. His mother, ana debora, miguels second wife, died when baruch was only six years old. Written by the dutch philosopher baruch spinoza, the tractatus theologicopoliticus or theologicopolitical treatise was one of the most controversial texts of the early modern period.