Spinoza

Author: Roger Scruton

Title: Spinoza

Binding: Paperback

Number Of Pages: 144

Release Date: 2002-08-29

Details: 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.

EAN: 9780192803160

Package Dimensions: Height: 0.36 Inches, Length: 7.02 Inches, Weight: 0.28219169536 Pounds, Width: 4.5 Inches