Secularism and Philosophy: The Challenge of Spinozism

随着世界各地宗教冲突的死灰复燃，世俗主义问题重新变得重要起来。在哲学史上，世俗世界观的合理性受到了比哲学史上更严格的辩论，没有哲学家比本尼迪克特·德·斯宾诺莎(1632-1677)在这个问题上引起了更多的争议。这个项目将导致斯宾诺齐主义在世俗主义历史上的关键作用的第一次历史，重点是从18世纪末到现在斯宾诺莎思想产生的三个截然不同的哲学冲突事件。这项研究将表明，世俗主义不仅是一种社会和政治现象，而且是一个哲学难题，到目前为止还无法解决。

With the resurgence of religious conflict throughout the world, the question of secularism has acquired renewed importance. Nowhere has the plausibility of a secular worldview been more rigorously debated than within the history of philosophy, and no philosopher has aroused more controversy on this subject than Benedict de Spinoza (1632-1677). This project will result in the first history of Spinozism's pivotal role in the history of secularism, focusing on three distinct episodes of philosophical conflict generated by Spinoza's thought from the late eighteenth century to the present. The study will make clear that secularism is not simply a social and political phenomenon, but a philosophical conundrum, thus far irresolvable.