Philosophical Religions from Plato to Spinoza: Reason, Religion, and Autonomy

Contents\nPreface\nAcknowledgments\nTranslations, conventions, abbreviations\n	Al-Frb\n	Aristotle\n	Augustine\n	Averroes\n	Avicenna\n	Cicero\n	Clement\n	Diogenes Laertius\n	Epicurus\n	Eusebius of Caesarea\n	Gregory Thaumaturgus\n	Hegel\n	Herbert of Cherbury\n	Herodotus\n	Hesiod\n	Josephus\n	Kant\n	Lessing\n	Maimonides\n	Mendelssohn\n	Meyer, Lodewijk\n	Narboni, Moses\n	Origen\n	Philo\n	Plato\n	Plotinus\n	Presocratics\n	Proclus\n	Reimarus\n	Samuel ibn Tibbon\n	Schiller\n	Spinoza\n	Tertullian\n	Thucydides\n	Xenophon\nIntroduction What is a philosophical religion?\n	Introduction\n	The concept of a philosophical religion\n		Theocracy and the perfection of reason\n		The handmaid of philosophy\n		Philosophy and religion\n		Theocracy and autonomy\n		Contextualism and progress\n		Tensions in the concept of a philosophical religion\n	Towards a history of philosophical religions\n	Reason, religion, and autonomy: revising the conventional wisdom\n		An encounter between philosophy and religion?\n		When was autonomy invented?\n		The Alexandrian project - between Athens and Jerusalem?\n		Athens and Jerusalem - a perennial conflict?\n		Spinoza - continuity or break?\nChapter 1 Reason, divine nomoi, and self-rule in Plato\n	Introduction\n	Socratic politics\n	The rule of God as Reason\n	Why the philosophers life is best\n	Guiding non-philosophers: the handmaid of philosophy\n	From coercion to self-rule\n	The wisdom of non-philosophers\n	From cultural revolution to philosophical reinterpretation\n	Divine Law - one or many?\nChapter 2 Moses, Christ, and the universal rule of Reason in antiquity\n	Introduction\n	Appropriating the Platonic model: the evidence of Eusebius\n	Reinterpreting cultural traditions\n	From the divine nomoi of the Greeks to the divine nomoi of the Jews\n	Moses and Homer - philosopher-poets?\n	Judaism as a philosophical religion\n	Christianity as a philosophical religion\n	Philosophers in paradise\n	From Magnesia to a Christian world-state\nChapter 3 Communities of Reason in the Islamic world\n	Introduction\n	Plato and Aristotle\n	Al-Frb on philosophy and the Divine Law\n	Averroes and Maimonides - disciples of al-Frb?\n	Islam as a philosophical religion\n	Judaism as a philosophical religion\n	Leading non-philosophers out of the cave\n	Theocracy and autonomy\n	Medieval Jewish Enlightenment\n	Between Maimonides and Spinoza: Elijah Delmedigo\nChapter 4 Christianity as a philosophical religion in Spinoza\n	Introduction\n	Spinozas early dogmatism\n	The evidence of Lodewijk Meyer for Spinozas early dogmatism\n	The concept of a philosophical religion in Spinozas later writings\n	Religion and the freedom to philosophize\n	From God as Reason to Deus sive Natura\n	Interpreting Christianity as a philosophical religion\n	Were the prophets philosophers after all?\n	Spinozas critique of religion\nEpilogue Did the history of philosophical religions come to an end?\n	Introduction\n	Disregarding Spinozas critique of religion from Lessing to Hegel\n	Philosophys new handmaid? Art as a pedagogical-political program\n	Making the handmaid redundant: equality as a moral-political value\n	Prospects of a philosophical religion\nBibliography\nIndex