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Spinoza: An Introduction to His Philosophical Thought

Stuart Hampshire

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Few other thinkers have felt so strongly 'the desire to have a unitary view of the world and of man's place within it' — a desire that led Spinoza to make crucial contributions to every major philosophical topic: the nature of knowledge and freedom, the existence of God, ethics and politics, mind and matter, pleasure and perception. In this masterly introduction to a supreme thinker Stuart Hampshire, himself one of today's leading philosophers, describes and assesses Spinoza's ideas on all these subjects and show how they make up a body of thought far greater than the sum of its parts. Only Kant and Hume have been systems-builders on an equally grand scale, and both were deeply sceptical thinkers. Spinoza, by contrast, pushed human reason to its limits 'in puruit of complete and final explanation'; the result, as Professor Hampshire demonstrates, is both exhilarating and extraordinarily impressive.

'This book is a model of its kind . . . it is full, clear — or as clear as the subject allows — agreeably written, wastes no words and shirks no difficulties.'
—The Times Literary Supplement

Language: English

Pages: 176

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Penguin Books

Release: August 02, 1988

ISBN: 0140227784

ISBN 13: 9780140227789

Spinoza: An Introduction to His Philosophical Thought

Stuart Hampshire

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Few other thinkers have felt so strongly 'the desire to have a unitary view of the world and of man's place within it' — a desire that led Spinoza to make crucial contributions to every major philosophical topic: the nature of knowledge and freedom, the existence of God, ethics and politics, mind and matter, pleasure and perception. In this masterly introduction to a supreme thinker Stuart Hampshire, himself one of today's leading philosophers, describes and assesses Spinoza's ideas on all these subjects and show how they make up a body of thought far greater than the sum of its parts. Only Kant and Hume have been systems-builders on an equally grand scale, and both were deeply sceptical thinkers. Spinoza, by contrast, pushed human reason to its limits 'in puruit of complete and final explanation'; the result, as Professor Hampshire demonstrates, is both exhilarating and extraordinarily impressive.

'This book is a model of its kind . . . it is full, clear — or as clear as the subject allows — agreeably written, wastes no words and shirks no difficulties.'
—The Times Literary Supplement

Language: English

Pages: 176

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Penguin Books

Release: August 02, 1988

ISBN: 0140227784

ISBN 13: 9780140227789

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Apr 26, 2024

The best book on Spinoza's philosophy.