The god of Spinoza. A philosophical study
Editorial CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
España peninsular
- Editorial CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- ISBN13 9780521665858
- ISBN10 052166585X
- Tipo Libro
- Páginas 272
- Año de Edición 1999
- Encuadernación Rústica
Secciones
Filosofía ModernaThe god of Spinoza. A philosophical study
Editorial CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
España peninsular
Detalles del libro
This book is the fullest study in English for many years on the role of God in Spinoza's philosophy. Spinoza has been called both a 'God-intoxicated man' and an atheist, both a pioneer of secular Judaism and a bitter critic of religion. He was born a Jew but chose to live outside any religious community. He was deeply engaged both in traditional Hebrew learning and in contemporary physical science. He identified God with nature or substance: a theme which runs through his work, enabling him to naturalise religion but - equally important - to divinise nature. He emerges not as a rationalist precursor of the Enlightenment but as a thinker of the highest importance in his own right, both in philosophy and in religion.