Pierre-François Moreau is Professor of Philosophy at L’Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, He is a world-renowned specialist in Spinoza. He is the author of Spinoza: L’expérience et l’éternité (1994), Spinoza: Etat et religion (2005) and Problèmes du spinozisme (2006), along with numerous other books and articles on Spinoza, Greek philosophy, early modern philosophy, the history of humanism and the methodology of the history of philosophy. Robert Boncardo is Sessional Tutor in the Faculty of Theology and Philosophy at Australian Catholic University. He completed his doctorate in French Studies at the University of Sydney and Aix-Marseille Université.