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Spinoza's Critique And Reshaping Of Christianity

Posted on:2016-10-10Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:D Y WangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2335330470968400Subject:Foreign philosophy
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Benedict de Spinoza(1632-1677)is a very famous philosopher in 17th century of Dutch,in his book of Tractatus Theologico-Politicus,Ethica ordine geometrico demonstrata and Korte verhandeling van God,DE mensh,en des zelfs Welstand and other major works,he has criticized the holiness of Christianity,this dissertation will using Tractatus Theologico-Politicus as line to discusses how Spinoza criticized and reshaped the 17th century European religion,and to explore its historical significance and realistic enlightenment.This paper is divided into three parts:The first part starting from the historical environment of spinoza,life,to investigate the causes of spinoza critique of Christianity,the analysis of the deconstruction of religious divinity.17th-century European sectarian,political struggle with a sharp,all parties to try to seek and develop its own theoretical support,and spinoza's personal experience to his new ideas with the theology stood together,emerging ideas had a great influence on him,and the social environment at that time,however,do not allow these new ideas,development,despite the fact that his works critique of religion is very subtle,but as expelled from the jewish community of spinoza was still hatred of all parties,his works have also been as banned books many times.In such an environment of spinoza' s philosophy not only has a very high critical value in the content,but also for future generations on reasoning methods has a very important lesson.The second part will discuss in detail specific process of Spinoza religious criticism.For Europe in the 17th century,the Christian the sanctity of the embodied in god(god),the bible,church,etc.,in which god' s holiness is fundamental,the bible is the basis,the church is the embodiment of god's will and supervision of executives.So spinoza to god and the bible the sanctity of deconstruction,the prophecy,the law of god,a miracle,and so on one by one analysis,think that these phenomena are people imagine or create rather than god' s will.In the process of spinoza defined anew,to god rejected Christianity in the traditional sense of the personality,then the way of the interpretation of the bible and the book process are analyzed,also includes the contents of all inductive became a moral requirement about love and justice.In this way,the foundation to the survival of Christian ceased to exist,the church became a common social organization.The third part describes the religious criticism of Spinoza,significance and revelation.Spinoza critique of religion is not only a great blow to the religious right,also expounds the advocates of free speech,he thinks that freedom to maintain the stability of the country will play an important role.His philosophy thought and philosophy has important influence in European philosophy,promote the development of European philosophy.The beginning of the 20th century,Spinoza's philosophy thought of the Chinese descendants his free thought and atheism soon spread in China is discussed.Spinoza,criticism of the traditional thought the formation of new ideas for the modern society played an important role in revelation,on one hand it makes us realize the necessity of the breakthrough tradition;On the other hand also for how to promote.
Keywords/Search Tags:Spinoza, Tractatus Theologico-Politicus, Critique of Christianity
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