Spinoza and the Stoics

ISBN: 9780826421814 出版年：2007 页码：160 Firmin DeBrabander Bloomsbury Publishing

This important book examines Spinoza's moral and political philosophy. Specifically it considers Spinoza's engagement with the themes of Stoicism and his significant contribution to the origins of the European Enlightenment. Firmin DeBrabander explores the problematrelationship between ethics and politics that Spinoza apparently inherited from the Stoics and in so doing asks some important questions that contribute to a crucial contemporary debatprovide any foundation for political theory and if so in what way? Likewise, does politics contribute anything essential to the life of virtue? Apolitical place and publphilosopher as a practitioner of ethics? In examining Spinoza's Ethics, his most important and widely-read work, and exploring the ways in which thStoic themes regarding the public behaviour of the philosopher, the author seeks to answer these key questions and thus makes a fascinating contribution to the study of moral and political philosophy.