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Within Reason
Margaret Gullan-Whur
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Description for Within Reason
paperback. 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. Num Pages: 416 pages, 8pp b&w halftones. BIC Classification: BG; HPCD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 34. Weight in Grams: 572. Good copy showing light shelf wear and age
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Pimlico London
Condition
Used, Good
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780712666527
SKU
KMK0025001
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99-1
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