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The Cambridge companion to Spinoza / edited by Don Garrett, New York University.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Cambridge companions to philosophy.
- Cambridge Companions to Philosophy Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677.
- Spinoza, Benedictus de.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 481 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2022.
- Summary:
- Benedict (Baruch) de Spinoza (1632-1677) was one of the most systematic, inspiring, and influential philosophers of the early modern period. From a pantheistic starting point that identified God with Nature as all of reality, he sought to demonstrate an ethics of reason, virtue, and freedom while unifying religion with science and mind with body. His contributions to metaphysics, epistemology, psychology, ethics, politics, and the analysis of religion remain vital to the present day. Yet his writings initially appear forbidding to contemporary readers, and his ideas have often been misunderstood. This second edition of The Cambridge Companion to Spinoza includes new chapters on Spinoza's life and his metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of religion, and biblical scholarship, as well as extensive updates to the previous chapters and bibliography. A thorough, reliable, and accessible guide to this extraordinary philosopher, it will be invaluable to anyone who wants to understand what Spinoza has to teach.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half-title
- Series information
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- List of Abbreviations and Method of Citation
- Introduction
- Note
- 1 Spinoza's Life
- Studying Spinoza's Life
- Sources
- Descent and Family
- Youth, Education, Expulsion
- Final Years in Amsterdam
- Rijnsburg
- Voorburg
- The Hague, I: Political Upheaval
- The Hague, II: Spinoza's Last Years
- Notes
- 2 Spinoza's Metaphysics of Substance
- The Definitions of ''God'' and ''Substance''
- The Substance's Relations
- How Much Is Infinite?
- Substance Monism
- The Nature and Reality of Modes
- Conclusion
- 3 Spinoza on the Metaphysics of Thought and Extension
- Attributes in General
- Characterizing the Body
- Characterizing the Mind
- Parallelism
- What Is an Attribute?
- Mind-Body Interaction
- 4 Spinoza's Epistemology
- Spinoza's Early Epistemological Views
- The Pragmatic Value of Epistemic Certainty
- The Denial of Skepticism
- The Epistemological Vocabulary of the Ethics
- The Definition of ''Idea'': Spinoza's Departure from Cartesian Innativism
- Truth and Adequacy: The Grounds of the Possibility of Epistemological Evaluation
- Ideas in God: Spinoza's Metaphysical Rationalism
- Classes of Knowledge and Dimensions of Reliability
- The First Genus of Knowledge: Imagination or the Grounds of Man's Epistemic Access to Reality
- Some Bits of Cognitive Psychology
- Imaginative Ideas as Inadequate Knowledge
- The Second Genus of Knowledge: Reason or Man's Capacity to Develop Adequate Ideas
- The Complexity of the Human Mind: Some More Bits of Cognitive Psychology
- The Contents of Rational Knowledge
- Reason and Geometrical Science
- The Third Genus of Knowledge: Intuitive Science or the Option of Epistemic Perfection.
- The Twofold Definition of Intuitive Science
- Intuitive Knowing: ''Scientia Intuitiva'' as a Manner of Proceeding
- Intuitive Knowledge: ''Scientia Intuitiva'' as Possession of Complete Knowledge of Particular Things
- The Infinite Intellect and the Option of Complete Knowledge of Particulars
- The Epistemic Subject of Intuitive Science
- 5 Spinoza on Natural Science and Methodology
- The Disciplinary Background
- Natural and Experimental Philosophy in the Correspondence
- Spinoza the Author of the Two Reeckening?
- Spinozan Physics and Cartesian Physics
- Scientific Method
- Natura Vexata (Sive Deus Vexatus)
- 6 Spinoza's Metaphysical Psychology
- The Metaphysical Account: Striving, Self-preservation, and the Power of Acting
- The Meaning of E 3p6
- 3p6 and Power of Acting
- The Application of Metaphysics to Psychology
- Desire
- Joy and Sadness
- Prudence and the Primacy of the Immediate
- Altruism and the Primacy of the Self
- The Law-Governedness of the Mental Realm
- Irrational Action
- Principles of Affect Constitution and Transition
- Teleology
- 7 Spinoza's Ethical Theory
- An Outline of Spinoza's Ethical Theory
- The Natural Foundations of Ethical Theory
- Definitions of Ethical Terms
- Bondage and Its Causes
- The Prescriptions of Reason
- The Way to Freedom
- Eternity, Intellectual Love of God, and Blessedness
- Four Important Questions for Spinoza's Ethical Theory
- The Nature and Motivational Force of Ethical Judgments
- The Conditions for Ethical Responsibility
- The Role of Altruism in Ethics
- The Value of Life and the Harmfulness of Death
- 8 Kissinger, Spinoza, and Genghis Khan
- Spinoza as an Eccentric Hobbesian
- The Coextensiveness of Right and Power
- Spinoza as a Social Contract Theorist
- Spinoza as a Machiavellian
- Conclusion.
- Notes
- 9 Spinoza's Philosophical Religion
- Dividing Philosophy from Religion
- Blurring the Boundary
- Philosophical Religion
- Philosophical and Revealed Religion
- 10 Spinoza's Contribution to Biblical Scholarship
- The Method
- Philology
- Making a Subject Index
- Identifying Dates of Composition
- Who Wrote the Pentateuch?
- La Peyrère
- Ibn Ezra
- Hobbes
- The Ezran Hypothesis in Hobbes
- The Ezran Hypothesis in Spinoza
- What, Exactly, Did Ezra Do?
- Doublets
- Chronological Issues
- The Rabbis Are Crazy
- Implications of Spinoza's Theory
- Do We Need a History of the New Testament?
- What Actually Is the Original Language?
- Why This Matters
- Hints of These Problems
- Debates about the Original Language
- Skeptical Implications of the Method
- Did the Apostles Speak as Prophets?
- Disagreements among the Apostles
- The Universality of Sin
- Becoming a Pauline Pessimist
- Interiorizing the Law
- Philosophical Speculation?
- What Jesus Taught
- What Is Required for Salvation?
- Salvation in the Gospels
- Spinoza's Political Agenda
- 11 Spinoza's Reception
- The First Reception: Refuting Spinoza
- Early Spinozists: Renegade Cartesians, Disenchanted Pietists, Erudite Libertines
- Early Influential Readings: Bayle, Leibniz, Wachter, Toland, Dortous de Mairan
- Spinoza in the French Enlightenment
- Spinoza in the German Enlightenment: The Pantheism Controversy
- Spinoza in German Idealism: Schelling and Hegel
- Cousin and His Adversaries: Spinoza in Nineteenth-Century France
- Schopenhauer, Marx, Nietzsche
- Twentieth-Century Spinoza
- Spinoza Today
- Bibliography
- Editions of Spinoza's Writings
- Secondary Literature
- Index.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Oct 2021).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781009064330
- 1009064339
- 9781009064156
- 1009064150
- 9781316156186
- 1316156184
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