Fukuoka, Atsuko:
The Sovereign and the Prophets : Spinoza on Grotian and Hobbesian Biblical Argumentation

Leiden [e.a.] : Brill, 2018. - XV, 425 pp. - (Brill;s Studies in Intellectual History ; 268).

Contains bibliography: [371]-402
Mention of Spinoza: Fast durchgehend/Nearly throughout

Literature type: Monographs
Language: English
Thematic areas: Philosophy of politics and law, Theology / biblical hermeneutics / philosophy of religion, Previous history (e.g. Descartes, Stoicism), Contemporaries and context, Comparison of theories
Subject: TTP
Subject (individuals): Grotius, Hugo ; Hobbes, Thomas

Complete bibliographic evaluation: yes
Autopsy: yes
English commentary: "While simultaneously responding to timeless themes of the Judeo-Christian tradition, Spinoza's analysis of those biblical topics" - i.e. "the media of relevation, the Spirit, prophets, the Bible's authority, 'jus circa sacra', and the Hebrew republic" - "can be at least partly explained as his attempt to apply his favourite dialectic method to the pivotal notions and scriptual passages related to the 'framework of mediation', which was recurrent in his comtemporaries' arguments about 'jus circa sacra' and 'libertas philosophandi'" (p. 344).
"The perplexity that this paradigm" - i.e. that the believers' "'jus internum conscientiae' was indipendent of any human authority" - "offers provides a key for grasping the nature of the complex relationship between the biblical analysis of Spinoza and Hobbes, who overlap considerably in their choice of topics and verses but diverge in their interprettions on several siginificant points" (p. 345).

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