Book: Modern French Philosophy Taine and Renan both express the initial attitude, a firm belief in determinism, but it is most clear and rigid in the work of Taine. His whole philosophy is hostile to any belief in freedom. The strictly positivist, empiricist and naturalist tone of his thought combined with the powerful influence of Spinoza's system to produce in him a firm belief in necessity--a necessity which, as we have seen, was severely rational and of the type seen in mathematics and in logic.
Details of Book: Modern French Philosophy Book: Modern French Philosophy
Author: John Alexander Gunn
ISBN: 055911480X
ISBN-13: 9780559114809
, 978-0559114809
Binding: Paperback
Publishing Date: Apr 2009
Publisher: Bibliolife
Number of Pages: 356
Language: English