Spinoza and the case for philosophy
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Spinoza and the case for philosophy
Cambridge University Press, 2015
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-279) and index
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Description
This book analyzes three often-debated questions of Spinoza's legacy: was Spinoza a religious thinker? How should we understand Spinoza's mind-body doctrine? What meaning can be given to Spinoza's notions - such as salvation, beatitude, and freedom - which are seemingly incompatible with his determinism, his secularism, and his critique of religion. Through a close reading of often-overlooked sections from Spinoza's Ethics, Elhanan Yakira argues that these seemingly conflicting elements are indeed compatible, despite Spinoza's iconoclastic meanings. Yakira argues that Ethics is an attempt at providing a purely philosophical - as opposed to theological - foundation for the theory of value and normativity.
Table of Contents
- Part I: 1. Spinoza and the question of religion
- Part II. Mind and Body: 2. The exegetic inadequacy of parallelism
- 3. The context
- 4. Ethics II, propositions 1-13
- Part III: 5. Bodies and ideas - a few general remarks
- Part IV: 6. The norm of reason: adequacy, truth, knowledge, and comprehension
- 7. Man, a mode of the substance
- Instead of a conclusion: Salus sive Beatitude sive Libertas.
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