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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif"">Sydney Seminar for the Arts and Philosophy<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif"">The Atheist God: Spinoza’s Laws of Religion and Politics</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif"">How are we to reconcile the paradox that Spinoza is perceived as the great atheist of the Western tradition and yet he constantly references to God? We will examine
this paradox through the vexed relation between politics and religion in Spinoza’s writings.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif"">Speakers: Beth Lord (University of Dundee) and Dimitris Vardoulakis (UWS)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif"">Chair: Moira Gatens (University of Sydney)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif"">Tuesday, 17 May 2011, 5:30 – 8:00pm<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif"">For more information, please visit:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Dimitris Vardoulakis<br>
University of Western Sydney<br>
School of Humanities and Languages<br>
Bankstown Campus, 7.G.11<br>
Locked Bag 1797<br>
Penrith, NSW 2751<br>
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