The Low Countries in Grotius's and Spinoza's Time---An Investigation of their Struggles for the Liberty of Conscience and of Thought

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25780009
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Public law
• Research Institution: The University of Tokyo
• Principal Investigator: FUKUOKA Atsuko 東京大学, 大学院総合文化研究科, 准教授 (80323624)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: スピノザ / ホッブズ / グロティウス / オランダ / 国家と宗教 / 主権 / 人権（精神的自由） / Biblical argumentation

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Spinoza's thought on sovereignty and intellectual liberty was by no means a creatio ex nihilo. The central aim of this project is to reconstruct the genesis of those key concepts of his 'Tractatus theologico-politicus', with an emphasis on the impacts that the so-called Remonstrant Controversy had given to the succeeding generations of theoreticians. The methodological focus of this project is set upon a comparative, detailed textual analysis of contemporary biblical arguments. This method, which had been developed in my previous book 'State, Church, and Liberty' regarding Hobbes and Spinoza (2008), has proven its merit also in deciphering the dispute that Grotius's friends and foes conducted concerning the church-state relationship.

Free Research Field

公法学