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BENEDICT DE SPINOZA: Theological-Political Treatise

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Index<br />

Abigail 29<br />

‘abovenature’,impossibleconceptxxxii,86,87,117<br />

Abraham, the Patriarch 18, 28, 35, 35--6, 48, 120,<br />

122, 174, 262, 263<br />

Ahab 29, 36<br />

Alexander the Great 4, 96, 149, 211, 212, 221<br />

al-Fakhar, Jehuda (early thirteenth century),<br />

Spanish Jewish opponent of Maimonidean<br />

Arisotelianism 187--9, 187, 190<br />

Ambrose, Saint (c. ad 339^97), bishop of Milan<br />

238<br />

Amos 31<br />

Amsterdam, commerce xxx, xxxv, 257<br />

mix of religions xx, 112<br />

Portuguese Jewish Synagogue xxiii, xxxix<br />

Apocrypha 110, 144, 154, 169<br />

Apostlesxx,10,19,26,41,71,75,112,114,155--62,<br />

164, 169, 172, 180, 230, 244<br />

disagreement and con£ict among 158, 161<br />

aristocratic republic xxiv,xxix, 202<br />

Aristotle and Aristotelianism xxi, 8, 18, 79, 113,<br />

173, 187, 265<br />

Ark of the covenant 137, 164, 165, 166, 217, 267<br />

arts and sciences, see improvement<br />

astrology 30<br />

astronomy 34<br />

atheism xxii,xxxiv, 27, 87<br />

Balaam 18, 50--1<br />

Bayle, Pierre (1647^1706), Huguenot<br />

philosopher xv, xvi, xxi, xxii, xxvi, xxvii,<br />

xxix, xxxii, xxxiii, xxxvii, 87<br />

Bacon, Sir Francis (1561^1626), English<br />

philosopher xiv, xv<br />

beliefs irrelevant to piety 177, 178, 180, 181, 182,<br />

183--4, 250<br />

Bible exegesis ix, x, xi--xiii, xvii, xxxi, 8, 9--10, 26,<br />

97--117, 160<br />

Blount, Charles (1654^93), English deist xxxvii<br />

‘Bomberg Bible’ (Venice, 1524^5) 141<br />

Boulainvilliers, Henri, Comte de (1659^1722),<br />

French Spinozist xvii<br />

Boyle, Robert (1627^91), English natural<br />

scientist xv, xvi, xxxii, xxxvi<br />

Brazil xxxv, 5n<br />

Cabbalists 137<br />

Cambridge University xxxii<br />

Cartesians xiv--xv, xix, xvii, 77, 271<br />

censorship, Dutch viii, xxv--xxvi, 1, 255<br />

China xxii, 44, 55--6<br />

‘Chosen People’ (the ancient Israelites) xl, 37,<br />

43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49--50, 52--4, 56, 68,<br />

88--9<br />

Christxvi,xviii--xx,19,29,41,63--4,67,69,70,75,<br />

79, 90, 103, 156, 159, 160, 161, 169, 171, 177,<br />

183, 234, 243, 268, 271<br />

Christianity xvii, xxi, 7, 71, 75--6<br />

circumcision 52, 55<br />

civil strife, and civil war 7, 8<br />

Collegiants 112, xx, xxvii<br />

Condillac, Etienne Bonnot de (1715^80), French<br />

philosophe xxxiii<br />

‘common good’ xxx, 46, 47, 200, 259<br />

Counter-Remonstrants xxvi, xxvii, 257, 258<br />

credulity and superstition, inspired by fear x,<br />

xix, xxi, xxiv, xxv, xxxvi, 3--5, 7, 8, 10, 12, 27,<br />

98, 130, 139, 162, 164, 231<br />

Cromwell, Oliver (1599^1658), Lord Protector of<br />

England (1654^8) xxxvi, 236<br />

Cudworth, Ralph (1617^88) English Platonist<br />

thinker xxxii<br />

276

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