From Stevin to Spinoza: An Essay on Philosophy in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic 9004122176, 9789004122178

Several schools of thought that are an essential part of early modern philosophy are presented in this work. The author

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From Stevin to Spinoza: An Essay on Philosophy in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic
9004122176, 9789004122178

This book is an attempt to assess the part played by philosophy in the eighteenth-century Dutch Enlightenment. Following

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An argument for why Plato’s Laws can be considered his most important political dialogue In Beyond the Republic, André

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