Being and reason : an essay on Spinoza's metaphysics / Martin Lin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lin, Martin, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677.

Spinoza, Benedictus de.

Metaphysics.

First philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 200 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Essay on Spinoza's metaphysics

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.

Summary:

In 'Being and Reason,' Martin Lin offers a new interpretation of Spinoza's core metaphysical doctrines with attention to how and why, in Spinoza, metaphysical notions are entangled with cognitive, logical, and epistemic ones. For example, according to Spinoza, a substance is that which can be conceived through itself and a mode is that which is conceived through another. Thus, metaphysical notions, substance and mode, are defined through a notion that is either cognitive or logical, being conceived through. What are we to make of the intimate connections that Spinoza sees between metaphysical, cognitive, logical, and epistemic notions? Or between being and reason? Lin argues against idealist readings according to which the metaphysical is reducible to or grounded in something epistemic, logical, or psychological.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

This edition previously issued in print: 2019.

ISBN:

0-19-257090-0

0-19-187904-5

0-19-257089-7