Spinoza
Subtitle: A Very Short Introduction
By: Roger Scruton.
Series: Very short introductions
Publisher: Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press, USA
Published: May 2002
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 144
Subjects: Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 119-121) and index.
Table of contents: label: 1
title: Life and Character; label: 2
title: Background; label: 3
title: God; label: 4
title: Man; label: 5
title: Freedom; label: 6
title: The Body Politic; label: 7
title: Spinoza's Legacy