From Stevin to Spinoza: An Essay on Philosophy in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic

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BRILL, 2001 - History - 218 pages
Several schools of thought that are an essential part of early modern philosophy are presented in this work. The author does not concentrate on the main authors or key-concepts that made up seventeenth-century philosophical discourse, but places the practice of philosophy in the Dutch Republic in a wide cultural context. This approach provides the opportunity to assess the emergence and early diffusion of Spinozism as a comprehensive philosophy.
 

Contents

Chapter Two Dutch Cartesianism
34
Chapter Three Cartesian Politics
65
Friends and Foes
94
Chapter Five The Fate of Dutch Spinozism
123
Epilogue The European Context of Dutch Cartesianism
163
Bibliography
171
Index
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Wiep van Bunge, Ph.D. in Philosophy, Erasmus University of Rotterdam holds the Spinoza Chair at the Rotterdam Department of Philosophy. He is the director of the NWO-programme "The Early Enlightenment in the Dutch Republic: Cartesianism, Spinozism, and Empiricism, 1650-1750."

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