This volume consists of 25 papers delivered at an international Spinoza conference held at the Erasmus University (Rotterdam) in October 1994 on the impact of Spinoza on the European Republic of Letters around 1700.

This book will be of interest to students of philosophy, psychology and counselling.

In this new edition ofhis classic Spinoza (1951), with substantial new material added, the late Sir Stuart Hamsphire offers a masterly introduction to a supreme thinker, and to his enormous influence on philosophy as it has been practised ...

... Spinozists were thought to believe . As explained in the introduction to this book , Spinoza himself does not believe that God is strictly equivalent to the sum total of reality , or that finite things are limitations of God . Spinoza's ...

... Spinozists » > , in C. de Deugd ( éd . ) , Spinoza's political and theological thought , cit . , pp . 150-169 . On trouvera quelque chose aussi dans C. Secretan , « La Réception de Hobbes aux Pays - Bas au XVIe siècle » , in Studia ...

... understanding of Spinozism is limited, and that he is unreasonably quick to brand people Spinozists. 328. Italics mine. 329. Lessing's attempt to show the similarities between Spinoza and. 152. Nature. in. Relation. to. Systems. of. Belief.

... Spinozism . " In short , " Spinozism " was a pejorative hurled at , but then - much more interestingly - defiantly embraced by , the " materialists " of the new life science.86 If they were " Spinozists , ” they were of a quite ...

... Spinozists were present only in small numbers and that they had merely a limited range (p. 119). Though his archive-digging has revealed more influence of any form of Spinozism than older histori- ography was ever prepared to hold true ...

... Spinozists, unfortunately, is growing in the whole of our Fatherland'. 74 Not only were there Spinozists, there was even a class of declared ex-Spinozists ready to join in the war against Spinozism. The veteran explorer Jacob Roggeveen ...