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Amazing introduction to the work of Baruch Spinoza. Despite its age, Hampshire's work remains relevant to interested readers. Worth the read!
Despite being a bit old, very good and insightful introduction to Spinoza's philosophy.
The best book on Spinoza's philosophy. It holds up very well.
Spinoza is one of my favourite philosophers. I studied Philosophy to A Level, and he was the one who I always found hardest to come up with counter-arguments for. He was also the pioneer of Pantheism, which gives me an even greater reason to love his philosophy. Stuart Hampshire's book on Spinoza looks at several different aspects of his views - metaphysics, knowledge, morality and politics. The book is not an easy read (as with all books of this genre, I fund myself reading some parts twice or
I enjoy reading books that were created at about the same time I was. This one gives a good picture of what Spinoza was trying to say. The Ravven ethics book http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17... got me thinking about Spinoza. I also re-read the Goldstein Spinoza book http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12... What do you get out of all of this? Some ammunition, I guess, for trying to make sense out of the decisions that people have been making since the 1600s. In Hampshire's book there is some...
I became interested in the 17th-century Dutch Jewish philosopher Baruch Spinoza because I thought I saw a similarity with the philosophy and religion of the Far East, especially Zen Buddhism. Since I heard that reading the Ethics raw was a difficult undertaking for a non-philosopher, I decided to try this elucidation which is now over 60 years old but still seems to be the best known introduction to Spinoza's philosophy and metaphysics. I was glad I did because I loved it. It's still not that ea...
