In this article, I develop my thesis along four axes: 1) an update of the notion of real equality in the project of the reformed regimes in the Political treatise; 2) the examination of two examples of resistance in the Theologico-political treatise; 3) the study of the correlation between citizenship and "human life" in the Political treatise; 4) an analysis of the Spinozist concept of "prudence" that, making it the constituent power of "common freedom", reveals its distance from the idea of "obedience".