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Spinoza: The Great Philosophers (The Great Philosophers Series) (Great Philosophers (Routledge (Firm)))
Spinoza The Great Philosophers - The Great Philosophers Series - Great Philosophers Routledge Firm Author:Roger Scruton Father of the Enlightenment and the last guardian of the medieval world, Benedict de Spinoza (1632-66) 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 Amsterddam to which ... more »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.« less