The Philosophy of Hope

ISBN-13: 9781138594180 / Twarda / 2023 / 184 str.

UK) Douglas Alexander (University of St Andrews

Opis

Alexander Douglas argues that the philosophy of Spinoza can offer something akin to religious hope. Douglas shows how Spinoza is able, without appealing to belief in any traditional afterlife or supernatural grace, to develop a profound and original theory of how humans can escape from the conditions of death and sin.

Spis treści

Preface: The Philosophy of Hope  Introduction: Beatitude and Philosophy  1. Life as Death  2. Metaphysical Desire  3. Ambition and the Fall  4. Empty Glory  5. The Repose of the Soul  6. Escaping Death  7. Escaping Sin  8. Glory and Love  9. God in Everyone  Conclusion: The Hope of Philosophy.  Bibliography  Index

O autorze

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.