Wisdom of the West: A Historical Survey of Western Philosophy in Its Social and Political SettingPopular survey of Western thought from the ancient Greeks to modern Existentialists, with many illustrations and diagrams in full color. |
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... Spinoza's system was published , even though the logical sequence would begin with it . The title of the book is somewhat mis- leading as to its contents . For here we have first of all Spinoza's metaphysics , which contains implicitly ...
... Spinoza's system was published , even though the logical sequence would begin with it . The title of the book is somewhat mis- leading as to its contents . For here we have first of all Spinoza's metaphysics , which contains implicitly ...
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... Spinoza coined the famous phrase that ' it is of the nature of mind to perceive things from a certain timeless point ... Spinoza's ethics properly so called . A man is in a state of slavery in so far as he is conditioned by outside ...
... Spinoza coined the famous phrase that ' it is of the nature of mind to perceive things from a certain timeless point ... Spinoza's ethics properly so called . A man is in a state of slavery in so far as he is conditioned by outside ...
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... Spinoza's God who is identical with the universe . Like Spinoza , Hegel rejects any form of dualism . Following Fichte , he starts from the mental , and therefore talks in terms of the Idea . This general metaphysical theory is applied ...
... Spinoza's God who is identical with the universe . Like Spinoza , Hegel rejects any form of dualism . Following Fichte , he starts from the mental , and therefore talks in terms of the Idea . This general metaphysical theory is applied ...
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