Everything in its right place : Spinoza and life by the light of nature / Joseph Almog.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Almog, Joseph, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677.

Spinoza, Benedictus de.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 143 pages)

Other Title:

Spinoza and life by the light of nature

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this work, Joseph Almog develops the unitarian and universalist metaphysics of Spinoza. Spinoza's ground zero thesis is that everything (including God, mathematics, morals, our own thoughts) finds its place within Spinoza's (capital N) Nature. It is the place that each thing occupies within the grid of Nature - from God on down the cosmic tree of being - that determines its fundamental (lowercase n) nature. This leads, as in the Ethics, to a final chapter on what it meant to Spinoza to live in symbiosis with Nature and, therefore, to be one with it - and with God.

Contents:

Why, what and how Spinoza?

Nature is one : nature and the "natures" it produces

Nature is all

Man as a force of nature: desire, acting and the metaphysics of politics

Life by the light of nature: love of God and partaking in infinity.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on February 28, 2014).

Other Format:

Print version

ISBN:

0-19-935098-1

0-19-931439-X