CAS WR 150 Lecture Notes - Baruch Spinoza, Freethought
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Print: wrote letters/communicated with many others during his lifetime. Oldenburg and de vries they speak in strictly philosophical interest (pollock 44) Oldenburg, [dr. lewis] meyer, and de vries, naturally wrote, as scholars, . and spinoza replied to them in the same language (pollock 45) Son of one of the wealthiest families in amsterdam, at one time a promising scholar, and, we must suppose, more or less of a free-thinker (pollock 72) Finally he threatens spinoza with eternal damnation if he does not repent of his wicked and abominable errors (pollock 73) But some common friends, who had known burgh, and, with spinoza, hoped better things of him, represented that is was but due to their old friendship to try the effect of remonstrance (pollock 73) Spinoza could not but show his sense of the extreme folly and insolence displayed in. The answer is far the sharpest ever written by spinoza (pollock 73)