Spinoza : a very short introduction / Roger Scruton.

Spinoza : a very short introduction / Roger Scruton.

9780192803160 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0192803166 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.

English

129 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.

B3998 .S445 2002

199.492

From the Publisher: 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 Amsterdam 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.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 119-121) and index.

1370L Lexile

Very short introductions ; 70.

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