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Spinoza : a very short introduction

By Roger Scruton

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
2002
ISBN
0192803166, 9780192803160
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7242834 bytes)
Pages
144\138
Time added
2017-04-20 17:14:23
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Description

Father of the Enlightenment and the last guardian of the medieval world, Spinoza made a brilliant attempt to reconcile the conflicting moral and intellectual demands of his epoch and to present a vision of man as simultaneously bound by necessity and eternally free. Ostracized by the Jewish community in Amsterddam to which he was born, Spinoza developed a political philosophy that set out to justify the secular state ruled by a liberal constitution, and a metaphysics that sought to reconcile human freedom with a belief in scientific explanation. Here, Roger Scruton presents a clear and systematic analysis of Spinoza's thought and shows its relevance to today's intellectual preoccupations.

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