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14. - Aristocracy

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 January 2025

By
Sandra Leonie Field
Edited by
Karolina Hübner  and
Justin Steinberg
Karolina Hübner
Affiliation:
Cornell University, New York
Justin Steinberg
Affiliation:
Cornell University, New York
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Summary

Aristocracy (aristocratia) features prominently in his last and unfinished work, the TP, after serving only a background role in the earlier TTP. Spinoza takes seriously the possibility of virtuous and free aristocratic states, provided their institutions are well designed.

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The Cambridge Spinoza Lexicon , pp. 34 - 35
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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Balibar, E. (1998). Spinoza and Politics. Verso.Google Scholar
Feuer, L. (1958). Spinoza and the Rise of Liberalism. 1st edn. Beacon Press.Google Scholar
Field, S. L. (2020). Political power and depoliticized acquiescence: Spinoza and aristocracy. Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory, 27(4), 670–84.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Haitsma Mulier, E. O. G. (1980). The Myth of Venice and Dutch Republican Thought in the Seventeenth Century, trans. Moran, G. T.. Van Gorcum.Google Scholar
Verbeek, T. (2018). Spinoza on aristocratic and democratic government. In Melamed, Y. & Sharp, H. (eds.), Spinoza’s Political Treatise: A Critical Guide (pp. 145–60). Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar

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