id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt pn89d507t6m Michael Rauschenbach Spinoza's Isolationism 1904 .txt text/plain 355 16 44 My aims here are far more modest than establishing the EB's truth, however, for fairly strong critical consensus in Spinoza scholarship suggests that Spinoza did not have, and that there really could not really be, any good reason for believing it. I show this by giving a new reading of Spinoza's Short Treatise that reconstructs an argument for the EB as a response to this problem. cache/pn89d507t6m.txt txt/pn89d507t6m.txt