Episode 165: Spinoza on Biblical Criticism (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
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🗓️ 5 June 2017
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
On Benedict de Spinoza's Tractatus Theologico-Politicus (1670), ch. 1–11. For Spinoza, the Bible was a political issue, and he was interested in a way to read it that didn't lead to people fighting wars and persecuting each other. Spinoza argues that a respectful reading is one that looks for the central message and doesn't paper over many places where the text was tailored to its original audience's prejudices, or where for historical reasons we can't now really know what it meant to them.
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| 0:17.9 | A podcast by some guys who were at one point said on doing philosophy for living, |
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| 0:22.6 | Our question for episode 165 is something like, |
| 0:26.1 | is the Bible compatible with religious tolerance? |
| 0:28.6 | And we read Benedict Dase Benoses, |
| 0:31.0 | Tractatus, Theological Politicus, published in 1670, chapters 1 through 7, |
| 0:36.1 | plus we've gained on through chapter 11. |
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| 0:42.3 | This is Mark Linson-Mire, |
| 0:43.8 | begging for your tolerance in medicine, Wisconsin. |
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| 0:59.6 | avoiding superstition in Middleton, Wisconsin. |
| 1:02.5 | We are finally back to Spinoza. |
| 1:04.1 | Hope people enjoyed the reissue of the old Spinoza on theology episode that we just re-released. |
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