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 Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast
The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast

Author: Giordano Bruno

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2022-01-24

Total Pages: 435

ISBN-13: 1496208153

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The itinerant Neoplatonic scholar Giordano Bruno (1548–1600), one of the most fascinating figures of the Renaissance, was burned at the stake for heresy by the Inquisition in Rome on Ash Wednesday in 1600. The primary evidence against him was the book Spaccio de la bestia trionfante, a daring indictment of the church that abounded in references to classical Greek mythology, Egyptian religion (especially the worship of Isis), Hermeticism, magic, and astrology. The author of more than sixty works on mathematics, science, ethics, philosophy, metaphysics, the art of memory, and esoteric mysticism, Bruno had a profound impact on Western thought.