Reflexe nad spinozou
Reflection on Spinoza

Summary/Abstract: Benedictus de Spinoza was among the most important post-Cartesian philosophers who flourished in the second half of the 17th century. He made significant contributions to nearly every field of philosophy and his writings reveal the influence of such divergent sources as Stoicism, Jewish Rationalism, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Descartes and a variety of heterodox religious thinkers of his day. For this reason he is difficult to categorize though he is usually counted, along with Descartes and Leibniz, as one of the three major Rationalists. Supposing Spinoza’s devaluation of sense perception as a means of acquiring knowledge, his description of a purely intellectual form of cognition, and his idealization of geometry as a model for philosophy, this categorization is fair. However, it should not blind us to the eclecticism of his pursuits, nor to the striking originality of his thought.

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