God, Man, and Well-Being: Spinoza's Modern Humanism

by Douglas J. Den Uyl

This book explores the seventeenth-century philosopher Spinoza's modernist humanism. There is little doubt that Spinoza was one of the principle founders of modernity, but his modernism is often thought to come at the expense of a humanism. Drawing attention to Spinoza's humanism, this book concentrates on politics, ethics, and psychology in order to understand Spinoza's conception of the human being, and why that conception endures into our own time...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820444626
• ISBN13: 9780820444628
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 145 Pages