Erasmus Center for Early Modern Studies

Prof. Dr. Laurens Winkel / research seminar

Lecture of Prof. Marcel Senn
on “Spinoza's legal theory and its misinterpretation by legal history”

The legal philosophy of Spinoza is based on an intellectual code of ethics, at the core of which is God or Nature. However, in the scientific discourse since the 18th century his ethics and legal theory were understood just to be a naturalistic and power-orientated conception of law. Spinoza himself recognised the problem of such a misled interpretation and, therefore, he tried to deconstruct the metaphor of Hobbes’ Leviathan. 

In collaboration between the Erasmus University Rotterdam’s departments of History (FHKW), History of Philosophy (FWB), Legal History (FRG), and History of Political Thought (FSW), the Erasmus Center for Early Modern Studies has created a monthly multidisciplinary research seminar for scholars interested in the way in which individual, community, and govern- ment in the Netherlands and Europe evolved, and how their interrelations were viewed in the Early Modern Age.

This research seminar was founded in 2003. For the program to date, click here.

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