Visions of the Just Society in Medieval Jewish, Christian and Islamic Philosophy

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Medieval Jewish, Christian and Islamic philosophers often interpreted their sacred texts as guidebooks for how to create the ideal society. In doing so, they each strove to delineate the nature of justice and how their particular religious law best serves to achieve it. Yet one must ask: how can their spiritual vision be brought into the real world, and would it even be desirable to do so? We will consider both the arguments for and against bringing together religion and politics, ending with Spinoza's case for the division of philosophy, religion and politics.