The Philosophy of Hope

Free Download Alexander Douglas, "The Philosophy of Hope"
English | ISBN: 1138594199 | 2023 | 162 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Can philosophy be a source of hope? Today it is common to believe that the answer is no – that providing hope, if it is possible at all, belongs either to the predictive sciences or to religion.

In this exciting and stimulating book, however, Alexander Douglas argues that the philosophy of Spinoza can offer something akin to religious hope. Douglas shows how Spinoza is able, without appealing to belief in any traditional afterlife or supernatural grace, to develop a profound and original theory of how humans can escape from the conditions of death and sin.
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