BARUCH SPINOZA lahir di Amsterdam pada tanggal 24 November 1632. Dia berasal dari keluarga Yahudi Portugis yang berimigrasi ke Belanda menjelang akhir abad keenam belas. Ide yang paling mencolok dari filosofi Spinoza adalah bahwa hanya ada satu substansi, substansi ketuhanan yang tak terbatas yang diidentifikasi dengan Alam; Deus sive Natura. Karya utamanya yang berjudul Etika bukanlah tanp…
This book brings together Spinoza's fundamental philosophical thinking with his conclusions about God and religion. Spinoza was born a Jew but chose to live outside any religious community. He was deeply engaged both in traditional Hebrew learning and in contemporary physical science. He emerges not as a rationalist precursor of the Enlightenment but as a thinker of the highest importance in hi…
Why would the work of the 17th century philosopher Benedict de Spinoza concern us today? How can Spinoza shed any light on contemporary thought? In this intriguing book, Moira Gatens and Genevieve Lloyd show us that in spite of or rather because of Spinoza's apparent strangeness, his philosophy can be a rich resource for cultural self-understanding in the present. Collective Imaginings draws …
From the rear cover of this 254 page book: "This highly acclaimed book provides a general introduction to the life and works of one of the major philosophers of the seventeenth century. In this revised edition, Henry E. Allison has rewritten the central chapters on the 'Ethics', taking into consideration the most important recent literature on Spinoza's metaphysics, epistemology, psychology, an…