@article{ART001168179},
author={Sam-Yel Park},
title={Spinoza's Social-Political Thought},
journal={The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics},
issn={1229-8387},
year={2006},
volume={0},
number={11},
pages={175-205}
TY - JOUR
AU - Sam-Yel Park
TI - Spinoza's Social-Political Thought
JO - The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics
PY - 2006
VL - 0
IS - 11
PB - The Society Of Korean Christian Social Ethics
SP - 175
EP - 205
SN - 1229-8387
AB - In this essay, I investigated the reason why Spinoza needs political philosophy in spite of his hard determinism. Afterwards, I researched his view of relationship between religion and politics in the Theological-Political Treatise, and also his argument about monarchies, aristocracies, and democracies in forms of government in the Political Treatise. In general, most people can only achieve the first kind of knowledge. They are unable to gain the highest happiness which Spinoza suggests in the Ethics, since they are unable to have an adequate idea. In order to make people saved from the fright and thus pursuing happiness, Spinoza tries to seek the best policies and systems of government such as monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy. The analysis and demonstration of appropriate principles of the constitutions for each form of government is the main task of the Political Treatise. For Spinoza himself, the purpose of state is to offer people a real freedom. He believed that democracy is the most natural form of government which guarantees freedom and equality. Thus, in the Theological-Political Treatise, he strongly suggested that democracy is the best format of which a government can pursue.
KW - Spinoza;politics;state;monarchy;aristocracy;democracy
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Sam-Yel Park. (2006). Spinoza's Social-Political Thought. The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics, 0(11), 175-205.
Sam-Yel Park. 2006, "Spinoza's Social-Political Thought", The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics, vol.0, no.11 pp.175-205.
Sam-Yel Park "Spinoza's Social-Political Thought" The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics 0.11 pp.175-205 (2006) : 175.
Sam-Yel Park. Spinoza's Social-Political Thought. 2006; 0(11), 175-205.
Sam-Yel Park. "Spinoza's Social-Political Thought" The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics 0, no.11 (2006) : 175-205.
Sam-Yel Park. Spinoza's Social-Political Thought. The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics, 0(11), 175-205.
Sam-Yel Park. Spinoza's Social-Political Thought. The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics. 2006; 0(11) 175-205.
Sam-Yel Park. Spinoza's Social-Political Thought. 2006; 0(11), 175-205.
Sam-Yel Park. "Spinoza's Social-Political Thought" The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics 0, no.11 (2006) : 175-205.
