Within Reason : A Life of Spinoza
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0712666524
ISBN-13
9780712666527
Publisher
Vintage
Imprint
Pimlico
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 6th, 2000
Print length
416 Pages
Weight
572 grams
Dimensions
23.40 x 15.70 x 3.40 cms
Product Classification:
Biography: generalWestern philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900
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Shows how the seventeenth-century philosopher Spinoza's central philosophical beliefs developed within the context of his own life. This work focuses on the philosopher's attempt to act solely through reason in the face of turbulent personal and national circumstances.
The seventeenth-century philosopher Spinoza was expelled from the Jewish community of Amsterdam the age of twenty-four for ''horrendous heresies'', and was eventually reviled by all religious authorities for claiming that human beings are parts of a single, unified nature, that God is identical with nature, and that reason, not revelation, supplies the truth of any aspect of God. Undeterred, he made this thesis the basis for a rational crusade against superstition and prejudice. Dr Gullan-Whur''s biography, the first for twenty-eight years, shows how Spinoza''s central philosophical beliefs developed within the context of his own life. Drawing on very recent scholary research and making detailed reference to primary sources, some not previously explored, the author focuses on the philosopher''s attempt to act solely through reason in the face of turbulent personal and national circumstances. This new approach demolishes the myth that Spinoza was a lofty ascetic. It exposes his emotional and sexual vulnerabilit arrogance and misogyny, yet shows his living philosophical experiment to be shrply relevant today.
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