num_pages: 211
description: By treating the history of moral concepts as geological strata, Rosenthal discovered the archaeological method long before it became fashionable. The appeal of this book - in addition to its wryly delightful style - is to those for whom Hobbes and Spinoza's thoughts are themselves part of a continuing and unavoidable meditation on unavoidable questions....This is philosophy as an essentially moral, frustratingly human enterprise....
language: English
title: The Consolations of Philosophy: Hobbes's Secret, Spinoza's Way
titlecomplete: The Consolations of Philosophy: Hobbes's Secret, Spinoza's Way
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Temple Univ Pr