| Literature type | Articles |
| Author | Fraenkel, Carlos |
| Title | Could Spinoza Have Presented the 'Ethics' as the True Content of the Bible? |
| Title of magazine / anthology | Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy |
| Counting | 4 |
| Editor (surname first) | Garber, Daniel ; Nadler, Steven (Hrsg./Ed.) |
| Place published | Oxford |
| Publisher | Clarendon |
| Year | 2008 |
| Pages | [1]-50 |
| Pages in total (of the volume) | X, 268 |
| Language | English |
| Thematic areas | Ethics, Theology / biblical hermeneutics / philosophy of religion, Previous history (e.g. Descartes, Stoicism), Contemporaries and context |
| Subject | KV, PPC/CM, TTP |
| Subject (individuals) | Bliyenbergh, Willem van; Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm ; Maimonides, Moses; Meyer, Lodewijk |
| Autopsy | yes |
| Complete bibliographic evaluation | yes |
| German commentary | "Meine Hauptthese ist, dass diese Inkonsistenz" - zwischen seinem Argument im TTP, dass "die Schrift keine Wahrheit enthält", einerseits, und mehreren Stellen in verschiedenen Werken, "in denen er der Schrift einen wahren Kern zuschreibt", andererseits - "am besten durch die Annahme erklärt werden kann, dass Spinoza zwei Projekte verfolgt, die zu versöhnen er nicht in der Lage ist: er will Religion als einen Ersatz für Philosophie nutzen, der die Grundlage für das beste Leben für Nicht-Philosophen bereitstellt, und er will den Wahrheitsanspruch der Religion zurückweisen, um die Freiheit zu philosophieren zu verteidigen" (S. 1-2). |
| English commentary | "My main thesis is that this inconsistency" - between his argument in the TTP, that "Scripture contains no truth", one the one hand, and the various passages in different works "in which he attributes a true core to Scripture", on the other hand - "is best explained by assuming that Spinoza is commited to two projects that he was unable to reconcile: he wants to use religon as a replacement of philosophy that provides the basis for the best life accessible to non-philosphers and he wants to refute religion's claim to truth in order to defend the feedom to philosophize" (p. 1-2). |
| Link to this page | http://spinoza.hab.de/detail.php?id=13054&LANG=EN |
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