{"product_id":"spinoza-and-dutch-cartesianism-alexander-x-douglas-9780198732501","title":"Spinoza and Dutch Cartesianism","description":"Alexander X. Douglas offers a new understanding of Spinoza's philosophy by situating it in its immediate historical context. He defends a thesis about Spinoza's philosophical motivations and then bases an interpretation of his major works upon it. The thesis is that much of Spinoza's\u003cbr\u003ephilosophy was conceived with the express purpose of rebutting a claim about the limitations of philosophy made by some of his contemporaries. They held that philosophy is intrinsically incapable of revealing anything of any relevance to theology, or in fact to any study of direct practical\u003cbr\u003erelevance to human life. Spinoza did not. He believed that philosophy reveals the true nature of God, and that God is nothing like what the majority of theologians, or indeed of religious believers in general, think he is. The practical implications of this change in the concept of God were profound\u003cbr\u003eand radical. As Douglas shows, many of Spinoza's theories were directed towards showing how the separation his opponents endeavoured to maintain between philosophical and non-philosophical (particularly theological) thought was logically untenable.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alexander X. Douglas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0198732503\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198732501\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press (UK)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/05\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 194\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.83lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.80d","brand":"Alexander X. Douglas","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47202104901887,"sku":"9780198732501","price":84.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5fc49190-d729-40a8-af0b-cfc9dce6dc13.jpg?v=1756819656","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/spinoza-and-dutch-cartesianism-alexander-x-douglas-9780198732501","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}