Alcance y límites de la defensa de la libertad de expresión en la teoría política de Baruch Spinoza
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Aunque en la teoría política de Baruch Spinoza ocupa un lugar
destacado la libertad de pensamiento y expresión en su aproximación al sistema
democrático de gobierno, sin embargo, realmente el alcance que Spinoza confiere
a la libertad de expresión está limitado por su concepción del Estado como
instrumento de racionalización de la seguridad colectiva, que constituye principio
fundacional en su teoría política, concibiendo la libertad de expresión como
mecanismo para la pervivencia del Estado y no como garantía de la libertad
individual frente al propio Estado, distanciándose así Spinoza de la concepción
moderna de la libertad de expresión que funda John Milton en la Areopagitica y
que adopta dos siglos más tarde John Stuart Mill en On Liberty.
Although in Baruch Spinoza’s political theory occupies a prominent place freedom of thought and expression in his approach to the democratic system of government, however, the scope that Spinoza really gives to freedom of expression is limited by its conception of the state as an instrument of rationalization of collective safety, which it is a founding principle in his political theory, because freedom of expression is conceived as a mechanism for the survival of the state and not as a guarantee of individual freedom against the state itself. Spinoza, therefore, is far from the modern conception of freedom of expression that founded John Milton in Areopagitica and endorsed John Stuart Mill in On Liberty two centuries later.
Although in Baruch Spinoza’s political theory occupies a prominent place freedom of thought and expression in his approach to the democratic system of government, however, the scope that Spinoza really gives to freedom of expression is limited by its conception of the state as an instrument of rationalization of collective safety, which it is a founding principle in his political theory, because freedom of expression is conceived as a mechanism for the survival of the state and not as a guarantee of individual freedom against the state itself. Spinoza, therefore, is far from the modern conception of freedom of expression that founded John Milton in Areopagitica and endorsed John Stuart Mill in On Liberty two centuries later.
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Saldaña Díaz, M.N.: "Alcance y límites de la defensa de la libertad de expresión en la teoría política de Baruch Spinoza". Historia Constitucional. Nº 17, págs. 15-44, (2016). ISSN 1576-4729














