ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on concepts discussed in this book. The book explains the formal limit of Spinoza's theory of natural right, the idea of a city as a right augmenting machine for its constituents. He seeks to mechanize natural right theory, but in so doing he juridifies the entire universe from greatest to smallest, bringing all within one order of natural right. The success of Spinoza's theory of natural right from without this sphere, from having discovered its limitations in meditating on the work of death, that, for those jurists who remain within, it is absolutely necessary that Spinoza be judged to have failed. Spinoza's theory of natural right is not simply 'eccentric Hobbism'. Such a model of right takes the Hobbist theory of miraculously willing atoms not as a starting point, but has a countervailing physical background of machines coupled together as the links in the great chain of causation.
