Stuart Hampshire
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"In Spinoza (1962), English philosopher Stuart Hampshire compares Baruch Spinoza to Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis. He sees a parallel between Spinoza's conatus and Freud's conception of libido, observing that Spinoza and Freud both understand emotions as being based upon a universal drive to self-preservation and maintain that frustration of this drive causes painful disturbance."--Sholem Stein "In the last hundred years it has become increasingly difficult to believe that there is such a thing as human nature, formed, finished and ascertainable." --"Uncertainty in Politics" (1957) by Stuart Hamphire |
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Sir Stuart Newton Hampshire (1 October 1914 – 13 June 2004) was an Oxford University philosopher, literary critic and university administrator. He was one of the antirationalist Oxford thinkers who gave a new direction to moral and political thought in the post-World War II era.
