Thie is the 1st edition of of The treatise is a naural extention of Maimonides' M. Yorah and Guide for the Perplexed. Maimonides' views are extentions of Akiba, best presented in the Commentaries of Nachmonides. "Rights" come out of power, not any abstration such as men created equal. Spinoza's view is that of the adult, not the child.