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paxxx17 t1_jay3tn5 wrote

Reading this reminded me of reading critiques of Spinoza and Voltaire by their contemporaries

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apuma t1_jc1y2rg wrote

Can you elaborate? I'm not familiar with how Spinoza's writings were received in his times.

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paxxx17 t1_jc3n17l wrote

People were a priori against the conclusions of his arguments so they couldn't bring themselves to understand his arguments, but nevertheless they criticized the arguments, mostly missing the point

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