Spinoza: 1700-1800
Spinoza: 1700-1800

Author: Wayne I. Boucher

Publisher: Burns & Oates

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13:

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Benedict Spinoza (1632-77), Dutch metaphysician, psychologist, moral philosopher and philosopher of religion, is one of the most important figures of 17th-century rationalism. He is among the group of thinkers of that time who were mathematicians and scientists as well as philosophers, a group that included Descartes, Leibniz and Hobbes. His thought has been continually reinterpreted, and he influenced such people as Goethe, Lessing, Nietzsche, Shelley, George Eliot, Wordsworth, Bertrand Russell, Freud and Einstein.

The Metaphysical Society (1869-1880)
The Metaphysical Society (1869-1880)

Author: Catherine Marshall

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 0198846495

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This book contains essays by important scholars on the historical significance of the Metaphysical Society (1869-1880). The contributors examine the innermost thoughts of the leading intellectuals of the period as they grappled with the changes around them.

The Cambridge Companion to Spinoza
The Cambridge Companion to Spinoza

Author: Don Garrett

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-10-28

Total Pages: 495

ISBN-13: 1009064150

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Benedict (Baruch) de Spinoza (1632–1677) was one of the most systematic, inspiring, and influential philosophers of the early modern period. From a pantheistic starting point that identified God with Nature as all of reality, he sought to demonstrate an ethics of reason, virtue, and freedom while unifying religion with science and mind with body. His contributions to metaphysics, epistemology, psychology, ethics, politics, and the analysis of religion remain vital to the present day. Yet his writings initially appear forbidding to contemporary readers, and his ideas have often been misunderstood. This second edition of The Cambridge Companion to Spinoza includes new chapters on Spinoza's life and his metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of religion, and biblical scholarship, as well as extensive updates to the previous chapters and bibliography. A thorough, reliable, and accessible guide to this extraordinary philosopher, it will be invaluable to anyone who wants to understand what Spinoza has to teach.