Author : H. F. Hallett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472510232
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)
Book Synopsis Benedict de Spinoza by : H. F. Hallett
Download or read book Benedict de Spinoza written by H. F. Hallett and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is intended for the use of the candid student, devised as a monitory preparation for deeper study of the philosophy of Spinoza. By its means it is hoped that the student may avoid the chief pitfalls of Spinoza-interpretation, and be carried past many of the difficulties encountered by the modern mind in the study of his writings. To this end perhaps the greatest hindrance to be met by the beginner is the 'popular' exposition that attempts to expound the thought of one age in terms of the favoured categories of another. By providing the necessary safeguards against misinterpretations arising from such causes, the author has sought to awaken interest in the closely knit fabric of Spinoza's doctrine of man and nature and God, and its practical import - and thus to revivify a specimen too long deprived of its native air.