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BENEDICT DE SPINOZA: Theological-Political Treatise

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Faith and philosophy<br />

condemns as heretics and schismatics those who put forward beliefs for<br />

the purpose of promoting disobedience, hatred, con£ict and anger. On the<br />

other hand, faith regards as faithful only those who promote justice and<br />

charity as far as their reason and abilities allow.<br />

[14] Finally since the things we have demonstrated here are the cardinal<br />

points I proposed to make in this treatise, I desire, before going any further,<br />

to make an earnest request of my readers, to read these two chapters<br />

with some attention and take the trouble to re£ect on them again and<br />

again, and to understand that we have not written them simply to make<br />

some novel remarks, but to correct abuses, and indeed we hope one day to<br />

see them corrected.<br />

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