BENEDICT DE SPINOZA: Theological-Political Treatise
BENEDICT DE SPINOZA: Theological-Political Treatise
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