That in a Free State Every Man May Think What He Likes and Say What He Thinks

Baruch de Spinoza
15 pages (2008/1670); 186KB download
WOWIO Books; ISBN: WOWIO-00443

DESCRIPTION

This essay argues that every person has a natural right of free reason and judgement. Consequently, a “government which attempts to control minds is accounted tyrannical, and it is considered an abuse of sovereignty and a usurpation of the rights of subjects, to seek to prescribe what shall be accepted as true, or rejected as false, or what opinions should actuate men in their worship of God.”