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Spinoza and Dutch Cartesianism

by Alexander X. Douglas

  • Hardback
  • 192 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • 14 x 21.6 x 2.1 cm

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Alexander X. Douglas offers a new understanding of Spinoza's philosophy by situating it in its immediate historical context. He defends a thesis about Spinoza's philosophical motivations and then bases an interpretation of his major works upon it. The thesis is that much of Spinoza's philosophy was conceived with the express purpose of rebutting a claim about the limitations of philosophy made by some of his contemporaries. They held that philosophy is intrinsically incapable of revealing anything of any relevance to theology, or in fact to any study of direct practical relevance to human life. Spinoza did not. He believed that philosophy reveals the true nature of God, and that God is nothing like what the majority of theologians, or indeed of religious believers in general, think he is. The practical implications of this change in the concept of God were profound and radical. As Douglas shows, many of Spinoza's theories were directed towards showing how the separation his opponents endeavoured to maintain between philosophical and non-philosophical (particularly theological) thought was logically untenable.
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  • Author

    Alexander X. Douglas

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Oxford University Press

  • Published

    February 2015

  • Weight

    377g

  • Page Count

    192

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.6 x 2.1 cm

  • ISBN

    9780198732501

  • ISBN-10

    0198732503

  • Eden Code

    4302840

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