1st Edition
The Role of Contradictions in Spinoza's Philosophy The God-intoxicated heretic
By Yuval Jobani
Copyright 2016
212 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
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Routledge
212 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
212 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Spinoza is commonly perceived as the great metaphysician of coherence. The Euclidean manner in which he presented his philosophy in the Ethics has led readers to assume they are facing a strict and consistent philosophical system that necessarily follows from itself.
As opposed to the prevailing understanding of Spinoza and his work, The Role of Contradictions in Spinoza's Philosophy... Read more
Introduction Part I. Revised Religion: On the Contradiction in the Concept of God in the First Kind of Knowledge 1 Moral or Political Religion? On the Contradiction Between the Two Models of revised Religion in the TTP Part II. The Contradiction in the Concept of God in the Second Kind of Knowledge 2 Spinoza’s Conception of Causality and the First Two Contradictions in the System: (1) Infiniteness or Finiteness (2) Immanence or Transcendence 3 The Contradictions Regarding the Essence and Perfection of the Things that Follow from God 4 The Contradiction between Static Unity and Dynamic Multiplicity in Existence 5 The Conatus of God and the Five Contradiction Embedded Within It (1) Static - Dynamic (2) Efficient Causality - Final Causality (3) Substance - Mode (4) Finiteness - Infiniteness (5) The Contradiction Between Good and Evil in God 6 Eternity and Time: The Contradiction and the Circularity Part III. The Contradiction in the Concept of God in the Third Kind of Knowledge 7 The Philosopher and the Grain Merchant: On Contradiction and its Concealment in the Spinoza-Blijenbergh Letters 8 The Intellectual Love of God and the Contradiction between the Internal and External Causes in God
Biography
Yuval Jobani is Assistant Professor at the Department of Hebrew Culture Studies and the School of Education at Tel-Aviv University.
