Spinoza's metaphysics : substance and thought / Yitzhak Y. Melamed.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Melamed, Yitzhak Y., 1968- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677.

Spinoza, Benedictus de.

Metaphysics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 232 pages)

Other Title:

Substance and thought

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This text offers a new and radical interpretation of the core of Spinoza's metaphysics. The first half of the book, which concentrates on the metaphysics of substance, suggests a new reading of Spinoza's key concepts of Substance and Mode, of Spinoza's pantheism and monism, and of his understanding of causation. The second half addresses Spinoza's metaphysics of thought.

Contents:

Spinoza's metaphysics of substance

Substance-mode relation as a relation of inherence and predication

Immanent cause, acosmism, and the distinction between "modes of God" and "modes of an attribute"

Inherence, causation, and conception

Infinite modes

Spinoza's metaphysics of thought

Spinoza's two doctrines of parallelism

Multifaceted structure of ideas and the priority of thought.ts""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on September 2, 2013).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-987520-0

OCLC:

848895505