Meaning in Spinoza's method / Aaron V. Garrett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Garrett, Aaron, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677. Ethica.

Spinoza, Benedictus de.

Methodology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 240 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Readers of Spinoza's philosophy have often been daunted, and sometimes been enchanted, by the geometrical method which he employs in his philosophical masterpiece the Ethics. In Meaning in Spinoza's Method Aaron Garrett examines this method and suggests that its purpose, in Spinoza's view, was not just to present claims and propositions but also in some sense to change the readers and allow them to look at themselves and the world in a different way. His discussion draws not only on Spinoza's works but also on those of the philosophers who influenced Spinoza most strongly, including Hobbes, Descartes, Maimonides and Gersonides. This controversial book will be of interest to historians of philosophy and to anyone interested in the relation between form and content in philosophical works.

Contents:

A worm in the blood: some central themes in Sinoza's Ethics

A few further basic concepts

Emendative therapy and the Tractatus de Intellectus Emendatione

Method:analysis and synthesis

Maimonides and Gersonides

Definitions in Spinoza's Ethics: where they come from and what they are for

The third kind of knowledge and "our" eternity.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliography (p. 224-230) and indexes.

ISBN:

1-107-13785-3

1-280-43115-6

0-511-17921-9

0-511-06253-2

0-511-20313-6

0-511-30626-1

0-511-48719-3

0-511-07099-3

OCLC:

57254217