Spinoza on reason / Michael LeBuffe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

LeBuffe, Michael, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677.

Spinoza, Benedictus de.

Reason.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 217 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.

Summary:

Here, Michael LeBuffe explains claims about reason in Spinoza's metaphysics, theory of mind, ethics and politics. He emphasises the extent to which different claims build upon one another so contribute to the systematic coherence of Spinoza's philosophy.

Contents:

Introduction

Spinoza's Life and Works

The Ethics and the Geological Political Treatise

Spinoza's Ethics

Spinoza's Theological Political Treatise

Reason in the Metaphysics of Finite Individuals

Dualism, Idealism, or Materialism?

God and the Human Individual as Existents

Availability: An Objection to Delia Rocca's Idealist Interpretation

A Response: The Causal Nature of Any Finite Thing Is Like the Nature of God

Aviccnna

Maimonides

Descartes

Reason and the Nature of Finite Things

Idealism and Reasons

The Causal Nature of the Human Individual in Spinoza

Theomorphism in Descartes and Leibniz

Generalization Arguments

Reason and the Question of Ideas

Reason as an Idea

Reason in Pseudo-Dionysius and Thomas Aquinas

Ideas of Reason as Knowledge Distinctive of Finite Minds

Causation and Perception

The Psychology of Perception: Power, Association, and Vacillation

Causation and Reason: The Idea of Something Common to Two Bodies

Common Properties, Common Notions, and What Follows from Them

The Psychology of Reason

Reason as a Kind of Knowledge

Practical Reason

Dictates of Reason in Aquinas and Hobbes

Curley and Rutherford on the Guidance of Reason

Self-Preservation and Understanding as Ends Commanded by Reason

The Second Kind of .Knowledge and the Guidance of Reason

Motivation and the Guidance of Reason

Authority and the Guidance of Reason

Authority and Motivation Together

Reason and Miracles

The Noble Lie

A Fixed Plan

Inductive Generalization as a Fixed Plan

Imaginative Ideas of the Unique

God, Miracles, Devotion, and Obedience in Spinoza's Account of Religion

The Doctrine of the Two Kingdoms

The Threat of Harmful Elitism

Reason and Religion in the Life of a Citizen

Reason as a Source of Practical Guidance and as a Motive.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on September 18, 2017).

ISBN:

0-19-084582-1

0-19-084583-X