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Vrije Politijke Stellingen
No prior complete English translation of this text has been found.
Extensive searches across multiple academic and library catalogs (including Google Books, OpenAlex, and local library databases) yielded no evidence of an English translation of Franciscus van den Enden's 'Vrije Politijke Stellingen' (1665). While the work is frequently cited in scholarly literature regarding Spinoza and the Radical Enlightenment, no complete or partial English translation appears to have been published.
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Franciscus van den Enden was a radical thinker who paid for his defiance of tyranny with his life. His Free Political Propositions argues that human freedom is natural and that organized religion and monarchies are simply rackets designed to keep people in chains.