Reception
Immediately after it was published, the book was denounced as being atheistic. This was the result of its conception of God as having no anthropomorphic characteristics such as sight, hearing, thought, will, emotion, purpose, mercy, etc.
The book subsequently has had a lasting influence on the history of philosophy, seen most clearly in Leibniz, Kant, Schelling, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Deleuze and Davidson.
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Famous quotes containing the word reception:
“Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion.... Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.”
—Rémy De Gourmont (1858–1915)
“To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)
“I gave a speech in Omaha. After the speech I went to a reception elsewhere in town. A sweet old lady came up to me, put her gloved hand in mine, and said, “I hear you spoke here tonight.” “Oh, it was nothing,” I replied modestly. “Yes,” the little old lady nodded, “that’s what I heard.””
—Gerald R. Ford (b. 1913)