Spinoza’s Tractatus Theologico-Politicus has been critiqued as contradictory and inconsistent. This is why I believe that the question with regard to Spinoza’s ‘neglected masterpiece’ should be: How to read the Treatise as a coherent philosophical work? I suggest that the reason why the Treatise seems contradictory is because of the complex juxtaposition of its two main foci: the relationship between theology and philosophy, and that of theology and politics. In this paper, I will argue against the claim of contradiction and pursue to demonstrate a close correlation and mutual interdependence of both relations. While the domains of theology and philosophy may be separate, there is no contradiction between the salvation of the ignorant and the salvation of the wise. Similarly, there is no contradiction between the theological part of the Treatise—which focuses on ‘piety’ and the defense of the freedom of ‘internal religion’—and the political part—which focuses on ‘peace’, and claims that the state should have absolute power over ‘external religion’.

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斯宾诺莎神学政治论文的连贯性

斯宾诺莎（Spinoza）的《论政治学》（Tractatus Theologico-Politicus）被批评为矛盾且前后矛盾。这就是为什么我认为，关于斯宾诺莎的“被忽略的杰作”的问题应该是：如何将《论着》解读为连贯的哲学著作？我认为，《论》之所以显得自相矛盾，是因为其两个主要焦点的复杂并置：神学与哲学之间的关系，以及神学与政治之间的关系。在本文中，我将反对矛盾的主张，并试图证明两者之间的密切相关和相互依存。尽管神学和哲学的领域可能是分开的，但无知者的救赎与智者的救赎之间并没有矛盾。相似地，