The Consolations of Philosophy: Hobbes's Secret, Spinoza's Way - Hardcover

Rosenthal, Henry M.

 
9780877226109: The Consolations of Philosophy: Hobbes's Secret, Spinoza's Way

Synopsis

By treating the history of moral concepts as geological strata, Rosenthal discovered the archaeological method long before it became fashionable. The appeal of this book - in addition to its wryly delightful style - is to those for whom Hobbes and Spinoza's thoughts are themselves part of a continuing and unavoidable meditation on unavoidable questions....This is philosophy as an essentially moral, frustratingly human enterprise....

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