Spinoza's God - Softcover

Franklin Lonzo Dixon Jr.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0981452353 ISBN 13: 9780981452357

Publisher: Alondra Press, 2010

Synopsis

A plain-language explanation of the philosophy of Baruch Spinoza, told as a more-or-less personal experience. The book is in two parts, the first dealing with Spinozism per se, the second defending the philosophy against the assaults leveled at it (and all metaphysical systems) by post-modernist philosophers. The book culminates with a rare defense of Part Five of Spinoza's masterpiece, 'Ethics Geometrically Demonstrated.' In that same culmination, the author lays the foundation for a new definition of the sacred, using for his materials Spinoza's commonsensible observations, and showing how those understandings differ from the irrational premises of conventional theological definitions of God and God's role in the world.

About this title

About the Author:

Frank Dixon graduated in 1949 from Murphy High School in Mobile, Alabama. Mr. Dixon attended the Uiversity of Alabama for one semester. He matriculated in logic while working for five years in Mobile's rail yards. For shorter periods he labored in Richmond, Virginia as a stamper of gilt letters on Bibles and hymnals, and in Washington D.C. as an airline ticket agent and door-to-door encyclopedia salesman. Giving up on gainful employment he took a position in Fairhope, Alabama as an essentially unpaid High School basketball coach. When the pleasures of that pastime ended, he became a civil servant. He retired in 1994 from the Defense Logistics Agency in Alexandria, Virginia, where, for the last 17 years of what turned out to be his career, he served as the chief of the agency's Computer & Communications Security Office. He is a frequent contributor to a local newspaper, The Madison Eagle, and lectures occasionally to the Washington D.C. Spinoza Group, where the notion to write this book took root and sprouted.

Review:

Spinoza's God, a modern synthesis of the philosophies of Spinoza and Wittgenstein for the layman. Franklin Dixon has rendered a lucid and entertaining explanation of Spinoza's sometimes obscure philosophy. --K. Gray Jones, author of The Canyon Chronicles

Spinoza's modern followers are a motley group, composed of skeptics, atheists, and even a few religious romantics. Frank Dixon offers another approach and another route to understanding the sober but spiritual perspective of the 17th century Sage of Amsterdam. Dixon's book has much to offer in various domains, but for me, its fundamental contribution is what it teaches about the philosophy of mind -- how we should understand our own mind, the mind of Spinoza as a thinker, and the mind of the God he conceived. Whether you are a novice to Spinoza or an avid reader of his works, if you wish to understand this great philosopher, Dixon's book is indispensible. --Daniel Spiro, Author of 'The Creed Room' and 'Moses the Heretic'; Coordinator of the Washington (D.C.) Spinoza Society

About this edition

• Publisher: Alondra Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0981452353
• ISBN 13: 9780981452357
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 264
• Illustrator: Bonnie S, Dixon