The Spinoza’s Authority Theory
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Keywords
Authority, power, churches, State, tolerance, critical theory
Abstract
The notion of authority carries a heavy theological-political burden. Spinoza critically examines different uses of this notion, to put it at the service of his philosophical project. In the present work are explicit connection authority with the guidelines of the said project, and becomes visible the heterogeneous treatment given by Spinoza to the authority in the Theologico-political Treatise, in the Ethics and in the Political Treatise depending on the diversity of purposes in each of these writings.