Volume 52, Number 16 · October 20, 2005
The Genius of Spinoza
By Avishai Margalit
Spinoza and Spinozism
by Stuart Hampshire
Oxford University Press, 206 pp., $74.00; $24.95 (paper)
A friend visited the British philosopher Stuart Hampshire just before he died last year. Hampshire was able to talk only with difficulty but managed to say, 'Spinoza was right. In the end it is all biology.' The friend, as he was leaving, muttered politely, 'See you soon.' Hampshire replied, 'I don't think so.' He died the next day.
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