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Routledge
524 Pages
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Routledge
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This title was first published in 2002. This collection of essays aims to present a wide range of interpretations of central themes in Spinoza's philosophy. Philosophical interpretations of Spinoza divide into three general categories. The first sets Spinoza within what is taken to be his historical context. Special emphasis is laid here on aspects of his teaching that seem to bear the influence... Read more
I: Basic Metaphysical Issues; 1: The Identity of Thought and Object in Spinoza; 2: Causation and Spinoza's Claim of Identity; 3: Spinoza's Demonstration of Monism: A New Line of Defense; 4: Spinoza's Causal Likeness Principle 1; 5: On the Problem of Infinite Modes; 6: Spinoza's Temporal Argument for Actualism; II: Knowledge, Truth and Error; 7: Spinoza's Theory of Ideas; 8: Ideas of Ideas and Certainty in the Tractatus de Intellectus Emendatione and in the Ethics; 9: Spinoza on Truth 1; 10: Spinoza on error; 11: The Second Kind of Knowledge and the Removal of Error; 12: Discussions Spinoza's Distinction Between Rational and Intuitive Knowledge; 13: Infinite Understanding, Scientia Intuitiva , and Ethics 1.16; III: Anthropology and Ethics; 14: Spinoza's Denial of Mind-Body Interaction and the Explanation of Human Action; 15: Tanquam Naturae Humanae Exemplar: Spinoza on Human Nature; 16: Spinoza's Individualism Reconsidered; 17: B eyond S ubjectivity : S pinoza's C ognitivism of the E motions; 18: THE MATERIALITY OF MORALS: Mind, body and interests in Spinoza's Ethics ; 19: Spinoza on the Knowledge of Good and Evil; IV: Salvation and the Mind's Eternity; 20: K nowledge , A nthropocentrism and S alvation; 21: Did Spinoza Lie to His Landlady?; 22: Spinoza's Theory of Human Immortality; 23: Spinoza's Theory of the Eternity of the Mind; V: Religion and Politics; 24: Spinoza: The Psychology of the Multitude and the Uses of Language; 25: Why Spinoza Chose the Hebrews: The Exemplary Function of Prophecy in the Theological-Political Treatise *
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Gideon Segal, Yirmiahu Yovel
