The Cambridge companion to Spinoza

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Title
"The Cambridge companion to Spinoza"
Statement of Responsibility
edited by Don Garrett
Publisher
  • Cambridge University Press
  • 2nd ed
Publication Year
  • 2022 [i.e. 2021]
Book size
24 cm
Series Name / No
  • : hardback

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Notes

Summary: "In many ways, Benedict (Baruch) de Spinoza appears to be a contradictory figure in the history of philosophy. From the beginning, he has been notorious as an "atheist" who seeks to substitute Nature for a personal deity; yet he was also, in Novalis's famous description, "the God-intoxicated man." He was an uncompromising necessitarian and causal determinist; yet his ethical ideal was to become a "free man." He maintained that the human mind and the human body are identical; yet he also insisted that the human mind can achieve a kind of eternality that transcends the death of the body. He has been adopted by Marxists as a precursor of historical materialism, and by Hegelians as a precursor of absolute idealism. He was a psychological egoist, proclaiming that all individuals necessarily seek their own advantage and implying that other individuals were of value to him only insofar as they were useful to him; yet his writings aimed to promote human community based on love and friendship, ..."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 444-474) and index

"First published 1996., Second edition 2022"--T.p. verso

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