By Donald A Nielsen
3 Faces of God bargains a brand new interpretation of Emile Durkheim's social philosophy. It demanding situations the present view of him as basically a systematic sociologist who pointed out sociology with the research of collective representations. Nielsen argues that Durkheim was once a sociological monist who constructed an idea of social substance and a concept of society, faith and the types of knowing strikingly just like Spinoza's philosophy. The e-book presents a entire exam of Durkheim's significant and minor writings, particularly his concept of faith and the types, and compares his paintings with Aristotle, Bacon, Kant, and Renouvier. the writer areas Durkheim's concept within the context of an come across among conventional spiritual beliefs, specially Judaism, and modernizing clinical and philosophical currents.
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