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Spinoza's Religion - A New Reading of the Ethics (Paperback)
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Spinoza's Religion - A New Reading of the Ethics (Paperback)
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Loot Price R514
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A bold reevaluation of Spinoza that reveals his powerful, inclusive
vision of religion for the modern age Spinoza is widely regarded as
either a God-forsaking atheist or a God-intoxicated pantheist, but
Clare Carlisle says that he was neither. In Spinoza’s Religion,
she sets out a bold interpretation of Spinoza through a lucid new
reading of his masterpiece, the Ethics. Putting the question of
religion centre-stage but refusing to convert Spinozism to
Christianity, Carlisle reveals that “being in God” unites
Spinoza’s metaphysics and ethics. Spinoza’s Religion unfolds a
powerful, inclusive philosophical vision for the modern age—one
that is grounded in a profound questioning of how to live a joyful,
fully human life. Like Spinoza himself, the Ethics doesn’t fit
into any ready-made religious category. But Carlisle shows how it
wrestles with the question of religion in strikingly original ways,
responding both critically and constructively to the diverse,
broadly Christian context in which Spinoza lived and worked.
Philosophy itself, as Spinoza practiced it, became a spiritual
endeavor that expressed his devotion to a truthful, virtuous way of
life. Offering startling new insights into Spinoza’s famously
enigmatic ideas about eternal life and the intellectual love of
God, Carlisle uncovers a Spinozist religion that integrates
self-knowledge, desire, practice, and embodied ethical life to
reach toward our “highest happiness”—to rest in God. Seen
through Carlisle’s eyes, the Ethics prompts us to rethink not
only Spinoza but also religion itself.
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