Reception and Influence
It is unlikely that Spinoza's Tractatus ever had political support of any kind, with attempts being made to suppress it even before Dutch magistrate Johan de Witt's murder in 1672. In 1673, it was publicly condemned by the Synod of Dordrecht (1673) and banned officially the following year.
The British philosopher G. E. Moore suggested Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus title as a homage to Spinoza's treatise.
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