Reconceiving Spinoza / Samuel Newlands.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Newlands, Samuel, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677.

Spinoza, Benedictus de.

Metaphysics.

Physical Description:

x, 283 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2018.

Summary:

'Samuel Newlands presents a sweeping new interpretation of Spinoza's metaphysical system and the way in which his metaphysics shapes, and is shaped by, his moral program. Engaging with contemporary metaphysics and ethics, Newlands reveals just how exciting and vibrant Spinoza's philosophical outlook remains for philosophers today."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction; 1. Spinoza Studies Today; 2. A Quick Plunge; 3. A Roadmap; 1: The Desiderata of Perfection; 1. Lust's Challenge; 2. Parsimony; 3. Plenitude; 3.1 The Nature of Attributes, Modes, and Expressing; 3.2 Intra-Attribute Mode Plenitude; 4. The Limits of the PSR; 5. The Metaphysics of Perfection, Then and Now; 2: Spinoza's Conceptualist Strategy; 1. Trouble in the Spinozistic Paradise; 2. The Conceptual to the Rescue; 3. A Pernicious Relativism?; 3: Conceptual Dependence Monism; 1. The Task of Metaphysics

2. The Case for CDM2.1 Causation; 2.2 In; 2.3 Following-from; 2.4 Conceptual Involvement; 2.5 Eliminativism and the Nature of Grounding; 2.6 Collapsing Causation and Inherence; 3. Motivating CDM; 4: Spinoza's Metaphysics of Modality; 1. Warm-up: Contingency, Necessity, and Conceptual Sensitivity; 2. Spinoza's Conceptualist Account of Modality; 2.1 The Nature of God's Necessity; 2.2 The Nature of Modality for Modes; 3. The Distribution of Modality; 4. Spinoza's Modal Pessimism; 5: A Conceptualist Account of Essences; 1. Essences as Explanatory Powers; 2. Spinoza's Either/Or

3. A "Hopeless" Problem and Spinoza's Conceptualist Solution3.1 The Essences of Substance; 3.2 The Essences of Modes Across Attributes; 3.3 The Essences of Modes Within an Attribute; 6: Elusive Individuals; 1. Individuals, Parts, and Wholes; 2. Spinoza's Causal Answers; 3. A Conceptual Condition; 4. Too Much of a Good Thing?; 7: Ethics, Motivation, and Egoism; 1. Spinoza's Psychological Ethics; 1.1 Desires and Values; 1.2 The Guidance of Reason; 1.3 Models and Ethical Instruction; 2. Moral Motivation; 3. Egoism Reconceived; 8: Moral Transformation and Self-Transcendence

1. Spinoza's Practical Privileging2. Moral Transformation Reconceived; 3. The New You!; 9: The Nature of the Conceptual; 1. The Threat of Idealism; 2. Rejecting Mentalism; 3. Attribute Neutrality; 4. Spinoza's Unfinished Task; Bibliography; Primary Texts; Spinoza; Arnauld and Nicole; Descartes; Hegel; Hobbes; Leibniz; Malebranche; Suarez; Wolff; Other Works Cited; Index of Subjects; Index of Ethics Citations.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [257]-267) and indexes.

ISBN:

0198817266

9780198817260

OCLC:

1013824958