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    A Qualified Defence of Rationalism: On the Role of the Analogical Imagination in Spinoza.Michael A. Rosenthal - 2020 - Australasian Philosophical Review 4 (3):243-249.
    ABSTRACT This commentary defends an interpretation of Spinoza that preserves some key elements of traditional rationalism, in which reason does have an independent path to the truth. While it agrees with Lloyd’s general view, in which reason, imagination, and emotion are more closely tied than the Cartesian scheme, in which reason is distinct from the world of bodies, the paper disagrees with her central claim that reason is constituted by the imagination. It argues that the imagination is effective to the (...)
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  2. (1 other version)Tolerance as a Virtue in Spinoza's Ethics.Michael A. Rosenthal - 2001 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 39 (4):535-557.
  3. Spinoza's 'Theological-Political Treatise': A Critical Guide.Yitzhak Y. Melamed & Michael A. Rosenthal (eds.) - 2010 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise was published anonymously in 1670 and immediately provoked huge debate. Its main goal was to claim that the freedom of philosophizing can be allowed in a free republic and that it cannot be abolished without also destroying the peace and piety of that republic. Spinoza criticizes the traditional claims of revelation and offers a social contract theory in which he praises democracy as the most natural form of government. This Critical Guide presents essays by well-known scholars in (...)
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    Spinoza’s Dogmas of the Universal Faith and the Problem of Religion.Michael A. Rosenthal - 2001 - Philosophy and Theology 13 (1):53-72.
    I argue that in the seven “dogmas of the universal faith,” which are introduced in chapter XIV of the Theological-Political Treatise, Spinoza reinterprets the traditional view of a minimal credo required for salvation. The dogmas are dialectical propositions that are true insofar as they are practically useful. Instead of obtaining salvation for the soul, the dogmas aid in the preservation of the body, particularly through the regulation of religion within the state. I show that reading the dogmas in light of (...)
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    Spinoza's republican argument for toleration.Michael A. Rosenthal - 2003 - Journal of Political Philosophy 11 (3):320–337.
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    Why Spinoza Is Intolerant of Atheists.Michael A. Rosenthal - 2012 - Review of Metaphysics 65 (4):813-839.
    This paper tests the extent of Spinoza’s liberalism through examining the question whether he would tolerate atheists. The first section analyzes the meaning of atheism through the epistolary exchange with Lambert van Velthuysen. It argues that it makes a difference whether Spinoza is an atheist in the strict sense—someone who explicitly denies the existence of God—or a deist—someone who holds a view of unorthodox God. Spinoza denies the charge that his idea of God undermines morality and he also defends his (...)
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  7. Spinoza and the philosophy of history.Michael A. Rosenthal - 2008 - In Charles Huenemann (ed.), Interpreting Spinoza: Critical Essays. New York: Cambridge University Press.
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    ‘The black, scabby Brazilian’: Some thoughts on race and early modern philosophy.Michael A. Rosenthal - 2005 - Philosophy and Social Criticism 31 (2):211-221.
    When Spinoza described his dream of a ‘black, scabby Brazilian’, was the image indicative of a larger pattern of racial discrimination? Should today’s readers regard racist comments and theories in the texts of 17th- and 18th-century philosophers as reflecting the prejudices of their time or as symptomatic of philosophical discourse? This article discusses whether a critical discussion of race is itself a form of racism and whether supposedly minor prejudices are evidence of a deeper social pathology. Given historical hindsight, we (...)
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    Two Collective Action Problems in Spinoza's Social Contract Theory.Michael A. Rosenthal - 1998 - History of Philosophy Quarterly 15 (4):389 - 409.
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    Spinoza on the Ontology of Justice: The Role of ‘Beings of Reason’ (Entia Rationis).Michael A. Rosenthal - 2023 - In Jenny E. Pelletier & Christian Rode (eds.), The Reality of the Social World: Medieval, Early Modern, and Contemporary Perspectives on Social Ontology. Cham: Springer Verlag. pp. 117-135.
    In this paper I make four claims. First, there is an apparent contradiction in Spinoza’s theory of justice. On the one hand, in the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus (1670), he argues that justice is entirely conventional and depends on the ruler’s decision. On the other hand, in the later and unpublished Tractatus Politicus (1677), he claims that man really is a social animal and that we can articulate ideal forms of justice on that basis. Second, to address this apparent inconsistency, we need (...)
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    The Siren Song of Revolution.Michael A. Rosenthal - 2013 - Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 34 (1):111-132.
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  12. Inventions of the Imagination: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Imaginary since Romanticism.Richard T. Gray, Nicholas Halmi, Gary Handwerk, Michael A. Rosenthal & Klaus Vieweg (eds.) - 2011 - University of Washington Press.
     
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  13. Baruch Spinoza.Michael A. Rosenthal - 2009 - In Graham Oppy & Nick Trakakis (eds.), Medieval Philosophy of Religion: The History of Western Philosophy of Religion, Volume 2. Routledge. pp. 3--141.
     
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  14. Michel Meyer, Philosophy and the Passions: Toward a History of Human Nature Reviewed by.Michael A. Rosenthal - 2002 - Philosophy in Review 22 (1):55-56.
     
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    Miracles, wonder, and the state in Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise.Michael A. Rosenthal - 2010 - In Yitzhak Y. Melamed & Michael A. Rosenthal (eds.), Spinoza's 'Theological-Political Treatise': A Critical Guide. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 231.
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    Persuasive passions: Rhetoric and the interpretation of spinozas theological-political treatise.Michael A. Rosenthal - 2003 - Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 85 (3):249-268.
  17. Spinoza, history, and Jewish modernity.Michael A. Rosenthal - 2008 - In Charles Harry Manekin & Robert Eisen (eds.), Philosophers and the Jewish Bible. University Press of Maryland.
     
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  18. Spinoza & Modern Jewish Philosophy.Michael A. Rosenthal (ed.) - forthcoming - Palgrave.
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    2. Spinoza on Why the Sovereign Can Command Men’s Tongues but Not Their Minds.Michael A. Rosenthal - 2022 - In Melissa S. Williams & Jeremy Waldron (eds.), Toleration and its Limits: Nomos Xlviii. New York University Press. pp. 54-77.
  20. (1 other version)Spinoza on beings of reason [entia rationis] and the analogical imagination.Michael A. Rosenthal - 2019 - In Jack Stetter & Charles Ramond (eds.), Spinoza in Twenty-First-Century American and French Philosophy: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, Moral and Political Philosophy. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
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    Spinoza's Political Psychology: The Taming of Fortune and Fear by Justin Steinberg.Michael A. Rosenthal - 2020 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 58 (3):614-615.
    In this ambitious and important book, Justin Steinberg attempts to explain the significance of the project for both contemporary political philosophy and the history of political thought. He argues that Spinoza offers a much-needed antidote against "ideal theory" in political philosophy. He also wants to expand our horizons concerning the context of Spinoza's political thought, primarily by noting the influence of Renaissance Civic Humanism. He argues for two main theses: the political works are continuous with the Ethics; and the role (...)
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    Spinoza's “Republican Idea of Freedom”.Michael A. Rosenthal - 2021 - In Yitzhak Y. Melamed (ed.), A Companion to Spinoza. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. pp. 402–409.
    There are two ideas of freedom in Spinoza's work, one stoic, the other republican. The stoic idea is expressed in the themes of individual self‐mastery through knowledge of one's place in the natural order. The republican idea of freedom expresses the necessity and nobility of political engagement in a state that is not fully rational. Spinoza's own theory of republican sovereignty was inspired by Machiavelli and other contemporary Dutch republican thinkers. Though, it originates as a critique of the Hobbesian social (...)
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    Spinoza's theologico-political treatise: Exploring 'the will of God'.Michael A. Rosenthal - 2007 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 45 (2):334-335.
    Michael A. Rosenthal - Spinoza's Theologico-Political Treatise: Exploring 'The Will of God' - Journal of the History of Philosophy 45:2 Journal of the History of Philosophy 45.2 334-335 Muse Search Journals This Journal Contents Reviewed by Michael A. Rosenthal University of Washington, Seattle Theo Verbeek. Spinoza's Theologico-Political Treatise: Exploring 'The Will of God'. Aldershot, UK-Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2003. Pp. 224. Cloth, $99.95. Theo Verbeek, an eminent historian of Dutch Cartesianism, uses his considerable knowledge of the philosophical and political context to (...)
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    The Collected Works of Spinoza by Benedictus de Spinoza.Michael A. Rosenthal - 2017 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 55 (3):545-546.
    Edwin Curley published the first volume of his translation of Spinoza's Collected Works more than thirty years ago. It was a landmark that signaled a renewed interest among English-speaking scholars in Spinoza's work. Now, the second volume has appeared, and it too is a monument to scholarship and promises to inspire new research in the field.It contains new translations of the Theological-Political Treatise and the Political Treatise, as well as the rest of the correspondence, letters 29–84. As in the first (...)
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    A Book Forged in Hell: Spinoza’s Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age. [REVIEW]Michael A. Rosenthal - 2013 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 51 (1):129-130.
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