Spinoza’s letters
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Spinoza’s letters are a collection of Baruch Spinoza’s personal and philosophical correspondence that illuminate his ideas, relationships, and intellectual context.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Spinoza’s letters Context triple: [Opera Posthuma, hasPart, Spinoza’s letters]
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A.
Spinoza, Ethics, Part I
"Spinoza, Ethics, Part I" is the opening section of Baruch Spinoza’s philosophical masterpiece in which he lays out his rigorous, geometrically structured metaphysics, including his identification of God with Nature.
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Tractatus Theologico-Politicus
Tractatus Theologico-Politicus is a 17th-century philosophical and political treatise by Baruch Spinoza that defends freedom of thought and expression while offering a critical, rational interpretation of Scripture and religion’s role in the state.
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Pascalian Meditations
Pascalian Meditations is a major theoretical work by sociologist Pierre Bourdieu that deepens his concepts of habitus, field, and symbolic power through a philosophical engagement with Pascal and the history of social thought.
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D.
Principles of Cartesian Philosophy
Principles of Cartesian Philosophy is Baruch Spinoza’s early systematic exposition and critique of René Descartes’ philosophy, presented in a geometric, axiomatic style that anticipates his later work.
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Tractatus Politicus
Tractatus Politicus is a posthumously published political treatise by philosopher Baruch Spinoza that analyzes the nature of political authority and proposes a rational, secular foundation for the state.
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- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Spinoza’s letters Target entity description: Spinoza’s letters are a collection of Baruch Spinoza’s personal and philosophical correspondence that illuminate his ideas, relationships, and intellectual context.
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A.
Spinoza, Ethics, Part I
"Spinoza, Ethics, Part I" is the opening section of Baruch Spinoza’s philosophical masterpiece in which he lays out his rigorous, geometrically structured metaphysics, including his identification of God with Nature.
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B.
Tractatus Theologico-Politicus
Tractatus Theologico-Politicus is a 17th-century philosophical and political treatise by Baruch Spinoza that defends freedom of thought and expression while offering a critical, rational interpretation of Scripture and religion’s role in the state.
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C.
Pascalian Meditations
Pascalian Meditations is a major theoretical work by sociologist Pierre Bourdieu that deepens his concepts of habitus, field, and symbolic power through a philosophical engagement with Pascal and the history of social thought.
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D.
Principles of Cartesian Philosophy
Principles of Cartesian Philosophy is Baruch Spinoza’s early systematic exposition and critique of René Descartes’ philosophy, presented in a geometric, axiomatic style that anticipates his later work.
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E.
Tractatus Politicus
Tractatus Politicus is a posthumously published political treatise by philosopher Baruch Spinoza that analyzes the nature of political authority and proposes a rational, secular foundation for the state.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
collection of letters
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historical document ⓘ philosophical correspondence ⓘ |
| author | Baruch Spinoza ⓘ |
| contains |
personal correspondence
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philosophical correspondence ⓘ |
| correspondent |
Albert Burgh
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Henry Oldenburg ⓘ Jarig Jelles ⓘ Johannes Hudde ⓘ Leibniz ⓘ
linked to:
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Lodewijk Meyer ⓘ Tschirnhaus ⓘ Willem van Blijenbergh ⓘ |
| documents |
Spinoza’s intellectual relationships
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development of Spinoza’s philosophy ⓘ reception of Spinoza’s ideas ⓘ |
| editedIn | modern critical editions ⓘ |
| illuminate |
Spinoza’s epistemology
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Spinoza’s ethics ⓘ Spinoza’s metaphysics ⓘ Spinoza’s political thought ⓘ Spinoza’s religious views ⓘ |
| language |
Dutch
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Latin ⓘ |
| preservedIn | various European archives ⓘ |
| providesEvidenceFor |
Spinoza’s daily life
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Spinoza’s relations with scientific institutions ⓘ Spinoza’s social network ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 17th century ⓘ |
| topic |
freedom and necessity
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good and evil ⓘ immortality of the soul ⓘ interpretation of the Ethics ⓘ lens grinding ⓘ mathematics ⓘ method in philosophy ⓘ mind–body relation ⓘ miracles ⓘ nature of God or substance ⓘ optics ⓘ political authority ⓘ scriptural interpretation ⓘ toleration ⓘ |
| translatedInto |
English
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French ⓘ German ⓘ |
| usedAsSourceBy |
biographers of Spinoza
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editors of Spinoza’s works ⓘ historians of philosophy ⓘ |
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