Spinoza: a Very Short Introduction
Author(s): Roger Scruton
mind spirit religion philosophy
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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- : Oxford University Press
- : Oxford University Press
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- : 01 August 2002
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