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Subject(s)

• Germany—Intellectual life—18th century [Browse]
• France—Intellectual life—18th century [Browse]
• Spinoza, Benedictus de 1632-1677—Influence [Browse]
• Diderot, Denis 1713-1784 [Browse]
• Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim 1729-1781 [Browse]

Series

• Texts and dissertations ; v. 78. [More in this series]
• MHRA texts and dissertations, 0957-0322 ; v. 78

Summary note

"Renowned as the chief challenger of traditional views of morality, man's freedom, and religion from 1650-1750, Benedict de Spinoza (1632-77) spread alarm and confusion throughout Europe through his writings. Theologians and rulers desperately sought to ban the spread of Spinozist ideas, and, in the post-Spinozist climate, eighteenth- century thinkers, often exasperated and perplexed, attempted to cope with the fallout from this intellectual explosion. The philosophical radicalism of Denis Diderot (1713-84), a French philosophe, and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-81), a German philosopher, well exemplifies the post-Spinozist mentality that permeated eighteenth-century thinking. As they grapple with the loss of intellectual, moral, and theological certainties, Diderot and Lessing re-work post-Spinozist ideas and in many instances elucidate even more radical ideas than Spinoza himself had envisaged."--Page 4 of cover

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-179) and index.

Contents

• Foreword (starting p. vii)
• Editions and Abbreviations (starting p. viii)
• Introduction (starting p. i)
• 1. Virtue and Vice (starting p. 20)
• 2. Freedom (starting p. 44)
• 3. Nature in Relation to Systems of Belief (starting p. 67)
• Conclusion (starting p. 155)
• Bibliography (starting p. 161)
• Index (starting p. 180)

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ISBN

• 9781906540883
• 1906540888

LCCN

2010537629

OCLC

491906284

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