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Spinoza's Science

Author : Louis Russell

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Page : 54 pages

File Size : 23,18 MB

Release : 2018-06

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ISBN : 9781983057212

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Baruch Spinoza wants us to do one thing only: think clearly. But how? This book offers the reader an accessible picture of Spinoza's three-grade theory of knowledge, one that culminates in what Spinoza calls intuitive science (scientia intuitiva). Spinoza thinks that intuitive science is the highest possible human achievement. So, how do we achieve it? This book explores the Spinozist strategy for clear, critical thinking and why the human body itself makes achieving the third kind of knowledge so difficult.



The Spiritual Automaton

Author : Eugene Marshall

Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA

Page : 258 pages

File Size : 17,4 MB

Release : 2013-12

Category : Body, Mind & Spirit

ISBN : 0199675538

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Eugene Marshall presents an original, systematic account of Spinoza's philosophy of mind, in which the mind is presented as an affective mechanism that, when rational, behaves as a spiritual automaton. He explores key themes in Spinoza's thought, and illuminates his philosophical and ethical project in a striking new way.



Spinoza's Religion

Author : Clare Carlisle

Publisher : Princeton University Press

Page : 288 pages

File Size : 50,74 MB

Release : 2021-09-07

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 069122420X

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A bold reevaluation of Spinoza that reveals his powerful, inclusive vision of religion for the modern age Spinoza is widely regarded as either a God-forsaking atheist or a God-intoxicated pantheist, but Clare Carlisle says that he was neither. In Spinoza’s Religion, she sets out a bold interpretation of Spinoza through a lucid new reading of his masterpiece, the Ethics. Putting the question of religion centre-stage but refusing to convert Spinozism to Christianity, Carlisle reveals that “being in God” unites Spinoza’s metaphysics and ethics. Spinoza’s Religion unfolds a powerful, inclusive philosophical vision for the modern age—one that is grounded in a profound questioning of how to live a joyful, fully human life. Like Spinoza himself, the Ethics doesn’t fit into any ready-made religious category. But Carlisle shows how it wrestles with the question of religion in strikingly original ways, responding both critically and constructively to the diverse, broadly Christian context in which Spinoza lived and worked. Philosophy itself, as Spinoza practiced it, became a spiritual endeavor that expressed his devotion to a truthful, virtuous way of life. Offering startling new insights into Spinoza’s famously enigmatic ideas about eternal life and the intellectual love of God, Carlisle uncovers a Spinozist religion that integrates self-knowledge, desire, practice, and embodied ethical life to reach toward our “highest happiness”—to rest in God. Seen through Carlisle’s eyes, the Ethics prompts us to rethink not only Spinoza but also religion itself.



Spinoza's Book of Life

Author : Steven B. Smith

Publisher : Yale University Press

Page : 256 pages

File Size : 26,63 MB

Release : 2003-01-01

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 0300128495

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Offering a new reading of Spinoza's masterpiece, Smith asserts that the 'Ethics' is a celebration of human freedom and its attendant joys and responsibilities and should be placed among the great founding documents of the Enlightenment.



A Companion to Spinoza

Author : Yitzhak Y. Melamed

Publisher : John Wiley & Sons

Page : 44 pages

File Size : 25,19 MB

Release : 2021-07-06

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 1119538645

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An unparalleled collection of original essays on Benedict de Spinoza's contributions to philosophy and his enduring legacy A Companion to Spinoza presents a panoramic view of contemporary Spinoza studies in Europe and across the Anglo-American world. Designed to stimulate fresh dialogue between the analytic and continental traditions in philosophy, this extraordinary volume brings together 53 original essays that explore Spinoza's contributions to Western philosophy and intellectual history. A diverse team of established and emerging international scholars discuss new themes and classic topics to provide a uniquely comprehensive picture of one of the most influential metaphysicians of all time. Rather than simply summarizing the body of existing scholarship, the Companion develops new ideas, examines cutting-edge scholarship, and suggests directions for future research. The text is structured around six thematically-organized sections, exploring Spinoza's life and background, his contributions to metaphysics and natural philosophy, his epistemology, politics, ethics, and aesthetics, the reception of Spinoza in the work of philosophers such as Kant, Schelling, Schopenhauer, and Hegel, and more. This unparalleled research collection combines a timely overview of the current state of research with deep coverage of Spinoza's philosophy, legacy, and influence. Part of the celebrated Blackwell Companions to Philosophy series, A Companion to Spinoza is an ideal text for advanced courses in modern philosophy, intellectual history, and the history of metaphysics, and an indispensable reference for researchers and scholars in Spinoza studies.



Spinoza

Author : Stuart Hampshire

Publisher : Manchester University Press

Page : 24 pages

File Size : 24,8 MB

Release : 1953

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Looking for Spinoza

Author : Antonio R. Damasio

Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Page : 372 pages

File Size : 28,98 MB

Release : 2003

Category : Medical

ISBN : 9780156028714

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Spinoza

Author : Gilles Deleuze

Publisher : City Lights Books

Page : 148 pages

File Size : 36,72 MB

Release : 1988-04

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 9780872862180

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Spinoza's theoretical philosophy is one of the most radical attempts to construct a pure ontology with a single infinite substance. This book, which presents Spinoza's main ideas in dictionary form, has as its subject the opposition between ethics and morality, and the link between ethical and ontological propositions. His ethics is an ethology, rather than a moral science. Attention has been drawn to Spinoza by deep ecologists such as Arne Naess, the Norwegian philosopher; and this reading of Spinoza by Deleuze lends itself to a radical ecological ethic. As Robert Hurley says in his introduction, "Deleuze opens us to the idea that the elements of the different individuals we compose may be nonhuman within us. One wonders, finally, whether Man might be defined as a territory, a set of boundaries, a limit on existence." Gilles Deleuze, known for his inquiries into desire, language, politics, and power, finds a kinship between Spinoza and Nietzsche. He writes, ""Spinoza did not believe in hope or even in courage; he believed only in joy and in vision . . . he more than any other gave me the feeling of a gust of air from behind each time I read him, of a witch's broom that he makes one mount. Gilles Deleuze was a professor of philosophy at the University of Paris at Vincennes. Robert Hurley is the translator of Michel Foucault's History of Sexuality.



Spinoza's Radical Theology

Author : Charlie Huenemann

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 171 pages

File Size : 25,7 MB

Release : 2014-09-03

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 1317547020

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The advent of modern science brought deep challenges to traditional religion. Miracles, prophecy, immortal souls, absolute morality - all of these fundamental notions were challenged by the increasingly analytical and skeptical approach of modern scientists. One philosopher, Baruch Spinoza, proposed a new theology, rooted in a close analysis of the Bible, which could fit this new science and provide a sound basis for a social order. "Spinoza's Radical Theology" explains the mechanics and meaning of Spinoza's ideas and how they can inform the questions with which we still struggle today.



A Book Forged in Hell

Author : Steven Nadler

Publisher : Princeton University Press

Page : 299 pages

File Size : 15,91 MB

Release : 2011-10-09

Category : History

ISBN : 069113989X

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When it appeared in 1670, Baruch Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise was denounced as the most dangerous book ever published. Religious and secular authorities saw it as a threat to faith, social and political harmony, and everyday morality, and its author was almost universally regarded as a religious subversive and political radical who sought to spread atheism throughout Europe. Steven Nadler tells the story of this book: its radical claims and their background in the philosophical, religious, and political tensions of the Dutch Golden Age, as well as the vitriolic reaction these ideas inspired. A vivid story of incendiary ideas and vicious backlash, A Book Forged in Hell will interest anyone who is curious about the origin of some of our most cherished modern beliefs--Jacket p. [2].