Thursday, December 6, 2007
Austria's View of Spinoza
Baruch Spinoza had several main beliefs/ideas. Some of these were all rights are derived form the State, and good and evil are related to human pain. The first idea of Spinoza would have been accepted by the Hapsburg empire because all of the territories were under the control of the Hapsburgs so unity and rights were all situated around them. The second idea would be excepted because since Joseph II gave rights and toleration to Protestants they would believe and go along with the idea that human actions are related to pain such as the Calvinist idea of original sin. Also Calvinists would believe in goodness is related to human actions from the belief that if you lived a good life, you would go to heaven. (This was the idea of predestination).
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