The Philosophy of Hope: Beatitude in Spinoza - Paperback
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The Philosophy of Hope: Beatitude in Spinoza
Can philosophy be a source of hope? Today it is common to believe that the answer is no - that providing hope, if it is possible at all, belongs either to the predictive sciences or to religion.
In this exciting and stimulating book, however, Alexander Douglas argues that the philosophy of Spinoza can offer something akin to religious hope. Douglas shows how Spinoza is able, without appealing to...
Alexander Douglas is a senior lecturer in Philosophy at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, UK. He is the author of Spinoza and Dutch Cartesianism: Philosophy and Theology and The Philosophy of Debt. He is currently working on a study of the critique of identity in Zhuangzi, Spinoza, and René Girard.
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