The structure of Spinoza's world / Emanuele Costa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Costa, Emanuele, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677.

Spinoza, Benedictus de.

Metaphysics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (245 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]

Summary:

'The Structure of Spinoza's World' intervenes in the very lively debate regarding how Spinoza can think that we live in a world populated by one being: God. In recent years, Anglo-American interpretations of Spinoza's philosophy have rediscovered the importance of relations as crucial features of his metaphysics. Elements such as causation, conception, inherence have become widespread in the field, and have provided vital contributions to the field of contemporary metaphysics as well, including Spinoza's bold and revolutionary metaphysics among the options available for philosophers interrogating the most fundamental levels of reality. Emanuele Costa provides a conscious attempt to examine and compare the different levels of relational metaphysics present in Spinoza's philosophy and advances the proposal of reading Spinoza's metaphysics through a relational/structural lens.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Introduction

I.1 What's in a World?

I.2 Metaphysical Monism and Interpretative Pluralism

I.3 Structures and Relations

I.4 A Summary of the Chapters

1 The Bare Bones of the World: Causation, Limitation, Inherence, Conception

1.1 Method and Methodology

1.2 A Metaphysical Ride

1.3 Immanent Causation, Panentheism, and Limitation

1.4 From Pluralist Structure to Causal Independence

1.5 From Causal Independence to Causa Sui

1.6 A Structure of One: Monism

1.7 Naturare

2 The Winding Paths of Substance: Expression, Involvement, and Aspectual Distinction

2.1 Ontological Expression

2.2 Expressionism and Explanation

2.3 The Attributal Deadlock

2.4 Aspects, Distinctions, and the Realm of Quatenus

2.4.1 Eternal Entailment

2.4.2 Carry-over Properties

2.4.3 Expressing God's Mind

2.4.4 Infinite Modes

2.5 Enter Finitude

2.6 Attributes at Work (Spinoza's Parallelism)

2.7 White Modes

2.8 The Decalogue of Expression

3 Unfolding Time: Eternity, Duration, and the Essences of Things

3.1 Time as a Construct

3.2 Modal Time

3.3 The Aspects of Essences

3.4 The Onto-Temporal Grid

3.5 An Essence in Time

3.6 The Fleeting Laws of Time

4 To Build a World: Individuals, Composition, and the Universe as a Whole

4.1 Questioning Individuality

4.2 Knowing Individuality

4.3 The Definition of Individuality

4.4 Shifting Structures

4.5 The Face of the Whole Universe

4.6 The Puzzles of Infinite Individuals

5 The Human Point of View: Action, Passion, Striving, Affects

5.1 Reducing Action

5.2 God as Agens and Patiens

5.3 Striving for Action

5.4 The Con-Struction of Affects

5.5 Acting Freely

5.6 The Eternal Bento

Acknowledgments

Bibliography

Index of Terms

Index of References.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on January 22, 2025).

ISBN:

9780197758090

0197758096

9780197758076

019775807X

OCLC:

1485609458