Автор: H. F. Hallett
Название: Aeternitas: a Spinozistic study
Издательство: Oxford: At the Clarendon Press
Год: 1930
Язык: English
Формат: pdf
Размер: 18,4 mb
Страниц: 325
The use of the Latin title Aeternitas for an English work is an apparent affectation that requires some defence. The justification is the more readily here set forth because it gives the opportunity thus early for a concise warning against the age-long ambiguity of the term ‘eternity' (and its equivalents), the exposure and resolution of which is the main purpose of the book.
In this study of the underlying principles of the system of Spinoza the aim has rather been to discover clues to the solution of some ultimate problems that in recent times have come into the focus of philosophical attention (though not always as problems), and which can only be met on the plane of metaphysics. Thus where it was found it necessary to discuss important points of interpretation, scholarship, use, or criticism in detail. The general reader may thus, if he wishes, avoid discussions which happen to lie beyond his immediate requirements, by occasionally omitting an Excursus.