Does Judaism really need animal sacrifices? Would it not be better off without them? After all, the sacrificial cult seems to compromise Judaism. What does a highly ethical religion have to do with ...

An authoritative edition of George Eliot's elegant translation of Spinoza's greatest philosophical work In 1856, Marian Evans completed her translation of Benedict de Spinoza’s Ethics while living in ...

Rejected by his Jewish community in Amsterdam, Baruch Spinoza was living alone in a small village outside The Hague in Holland and earning his living by grinding lenses when he wrote one of the most ...

A short text about the basics of materialist ethics, our power to change the circumstances of everyday life and creating and developing our abilities and needs. [This text was translated into English ...

Learning is painful, pleasant and, above all, communal.

Synthese spans the topics of Epistemology, Methodology and Philosophy of Science. Coverage includes the theory of knowledge; general methodological problems of science, of induction and probability, ...

As the world becomes, to all appearances, a discordant, chaotic jungle inhabited by trees with glass shard leaves and strange, growling nocturnal beasts, it might seem counter-intuitive to seek ...

Spinoza probably lives in the memory of those who took an introduction to philosophy course as one of those strangely ambitious, God’s-eye-view metaphysicians who thought they could explain everything ...

A reader has submitted a review of a new work by the well-known cultural critic and historian, John Berger. The more an image is joined with many other things, the more often it flourishes. The more ...