Gottfried Leibniz is remembered as a metaphysical Pollyanna, thanks to Voltaire's caricature -- the hapless Dr. Pangloss, who insists that all is for the best, even as he is afflicted with syphilis, ...

Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 30, No. 1 (Mar., 2000), pp. 85-113 (29 pages) ...

The beguiling Dutch philosopher’s life and work is prone to misunderstandings and misreadings. A recent biography goes so far as to recruit him into the culture war. Ad Policy A portrait of Benedict ...

Here are the opening lines of the herem, the philosopher Spinoza’s excommunication from the Amsterdam synagogue. With the judgment of the angels and with that of the saints, we put under herem, ...

because Spinoza’s Latin spirit fermented in an Ibn Tibbon Hebrew rebrew, a Marrano malt that neither is a single nor a double, but a triple, ale from three spirits which Spinoza’s mighty mind would ...

Much of the diet business in the United States, claims Richard Watson, is ”a scam and an amusement: profitable to merchants, entertaining to customers, amusing to spectators.” In ”The Philosopher`s ...

DR. ROTH has produced a scholarly book. The author rejects the view that Spinoza is originally a follower of Descartes and that the purpose of his speculation is to develop the logical consistency of ...