What Baruch Spinoza thinks about journalism
Dutch philosopher (1632 to 1677), born in Amsterdam's Portuguese-Jewish community; died in The Hague; author of the Ethics and the Theological-Political Treatise.
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1 dated position, c. 1670, in their own words. Our reading of what Baruch Spinoza has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsThus men relate in chronicles and histories their own opinions rather than actual events, so that one and the same event is so differently related by two men of different opinions, that it seems like two separate occurrences; and, further, it is very easy from historical chronicles to gather the personal opinions of the historian.
↗Theologico-Political Treatise, Part 2 (1670; R. H. M. Elwes translation)gutenberg.org All 18 from this book