Connelly, Stephen (2015) Spinoza, right and absolute freedom. Birkbeck Law Press . Abingdon, Oxon: Birkbeck Law Press. ISBN 9781138826892

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Against jurisprudential reductions of Spinoza's thinking to a kind of eccentric version of Hobbes, this book argues that Spinoza's theory of natural right contains an important idea of absolute freedom, which would be inconceivable within Hobbes' own schema. Spinoza famously thought that the universe and all of the beings and events within it are fully determined by their causes. This has led jurisprudential commentators to believe that Spinoza has no room for natural right - in the sense that whatever happens by definition has a 'right' to happen. But, although this book demonstrates how Spin. Read less

Item Type:	Book
Divisions:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law
Series Name:	Birkbeck Law Press
Publisher:	Birkbeck Law Press
Place of Publication:	Abingdon, Oxon
ISBN:	9781138826892
Official Date:	2015
Dates:	Date Event 2015 Published
Number of Pages:	242
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Restricted or Subscription Access
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