http://federalistpublicola.com/2008/08/08/sovereignty-by-creation/ Wed, 25 Aug 2010 21:32:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://federalistpublicola.com/2008/08/08/sovereignty-by-creation/#comment-859 Heartburn Home Remedy Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:54:54 +0000 http://federalistnowandforever.wordpress.com/?p=70#comment-859 This is quite a up-to-date information. I think I'll share it on Twitter. This is quite a up-to-date information. I think I’ll share it on Twitter.

]]> http://federalistpublicola.com/2008/08/08/sovereignty-by-creation/#comment-757 Wim Klever Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:17:44 +0000 http://federalistnowandforever.wordpress.com/?p=70#comment-757 Locke's First Treatise is, indeed, fascinating, although nearly nobody does take it seriously. As a Spinozist I immediately remarked his adherence to Spinoza's famous "Deus sive Natura". After having carefully prepared his readers in a loose or ambivalent style, that it makes no difference whether one aqscribes things to nature or to God ('by the course of nature', 'by appointment of God himself', 'Nature requires that', 'nature appoints', God and nature has given', by natural or Divine right') he uses in chapter 11/111 without a clause or condition the expressions "God or Nature" and "naturally or by God's institution". In paragraph 116 he once more writes: 'by the law of God or Nature'. No informed reader of the seventeenth century could avoid recognizing in these words the well-known blasphemy, which went around and was widely quoted as the indication of Spinoza's shocking position". Locke’s First Treatise is, indeed, fascinating, although nearly nobody does take it seriously. As a Spinozist I immediately remarked his adherence to Spinoza’s famous “Deus sive Natura”. After having carefully prepared his readers in a loose or ambivalent style, that it makes no difference whether one aqscribes things to nature or to God (‘by the course of nature’, ‘by appointment of God himself’, ‘Nature requires that’, ‘nature appoints’, God and nature has given’, by natural or Divine right’) he uses in chapter 11/111 without a clause or condition the expressions “God or Nature” and “naturally or by God’s institution”. In paragraph 116 he once more writes: ‘by the law of God or Nature’. No informed reader of the seventeenth century could avoid recognizing in these words the well-known blasphemy, which went around and was widely quoted as the indication of Spinoza’s shocking position”.

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