God, Man, and Well-Being

Spinoza’s Modern Humanism

Douglas Den Uyl (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

145 Seiten

2008 | New edition
Peter Lang Publishing Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8204-4462-8 (ISBN)

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This book explores the seventeenth-century philosopher Spinoza’s modernist humanism. There is little doubt that Spinoza was one of the principle founders of modernity, but his modernism is often thought to come at the expense of a humanism. Drawing attention to Spinoza’s humanism, this book concentrates on politics, ethics, and psychology in order to understand Spinoza’s conception of the human being, and why that conception endures into our own time with particular relevance. This introduction to Spinoza’s thought proceeds in a reverse order from the usual treatment: rather than beginning with a consideration of Spinoza’s metaphysics, the discussion culminates in an exploration of those concepts. In this way, this book is a deeper examination of what Spinoza himself thought, and allows the reader to consider more fully Spinoza’s wider philosophy.

The Author: Douglas J. Den Uyl is Vice President of Educational Programs at Liberty Fund Inc. Before joining Liberty Fund, he was Full Professor and Chairman of the Department of Philosophy at Bellarmine University. He has written numerous articles and books in the areas of political and ethical philosophy and the history of ideas, and is especially interested in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century political and social philosophy.

Reihe/Serie	Masterworks in the Western Tradition ; 8
Reihe/Serie	Masterworks in the Western Tradition ; 8
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 230 mm
Gewicht	220 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie des Mittelalters
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-10	0-8204-4462-6 / 0820444626
ISBN-13	978-0-8204-4462-8 / 9780820444628
Zustand	Neuware