Salvation from Despair: A Reappraisal of Spinoza’s PhilosophySpringer Science & Business Media, 31 jul 1973 - 270 pagina's My purpose in this book is to re-interpret the philosophy of Spinoza to a new generation. I make no attempt to compete with the historical scholar ship of A. H. Wolfson in tracing back Spinoza's ideas to his Ancient, Hebrew and Mediaeval forerunners, or the meticulous philosophical scrutiny of Harold Joachim, which I could wish to emulate but cannot hope to rival. I have simply relied upon the text of Spinoza's own writings in an effort to grasp and to make intelligible to others the precise meaning of his doctrine, and to decide whether, in spite of numerous apparent and serious internal conflicts, it can be understood as a consistent whole. In so doing I have found it necessary to correct what seem to me t0' be mis conceptions frequently entertained by commentators. Whether or not I am right in my re-interpretation, it will, I hope, contribute something fresh, if not to the knowledge of Spinoza, at least to the discussion of what he really meant to say. The limits within which I am constrained to write prevent me from drawing fully upon the great mass of scholarly writings on Spinoza, his life and times, his works and his philosophical ideas. I can only try to make amends for omissions by listing the most important works in the Spinoza bibliography, for reference by those who would seek to know more about his philosophy. This list I have added as an appendix. |
Inhoudsopgave
CONTEMPORARY DESPAIR AND ITS ANTIDOTE | 3 |
2 Reactions against the past | 4 |
3 Groundspring of philosophy | 8 |
4 Spinozas Scientific Attitude | 11 |
GEOMETRICAL METHOD | 15 |
2 Critics of Spinozas method | 19 |
3 Deduction | 21 |
4 Geometry and Metaphysics | 28 |
4 One coherent doctrine | 145 |
5 Spinoza and Plato on the Good and the Expedient | 147 |
6 Moral Weakness | 149 |
7 The Reality of Evil | 152 |
THE MASTERY OF FATE | 160 |
2 The Mastery Over the Passions | 166 |
3 The Dictates of Reason | 172 |
4 Selfishness and Selfsacrifice | 174 |
GOD | 31 |
THE ABSURDITY OF ATHEISM | 33 |
2 The Conception of God | 35 |
3 The Existence of God | 39 |
4 Dismissal of the Indictment | 46 |
GODS CREATIVITY | 48 |
2 Attributes and Modes | 50 |
3 Modes Infinite and Finite | 55 |
4 The Causality of God | 57 |
5 Interpretations Comment and Criticism | 58 |
6 Solution of the Problem | 64 |
7 Residual Difficulties | 69 |
MAN | 75 |
BODY AND MIND | 77 |
2 Mind as Felt Body | 80 |
3 Substantial Identity | 82 |
4 Rejection of Parallelism | 84 |
5 Alleged ambiguity of idea | 85 |
6 Idea Ideae | 87 |
7 Passivity and Activity | 89 |
8 Imaginatio | 93 |
9 The Common Order of Nature Time Measure and Number | 98 |
10 Adequate Knowledge | 103 |
PASSION AND ACTION | 110 |
3 Primary and Secondary Affects | 113 |
4 Active Emotions | 118 |
5 Human Nature | 119 |
6 Freedom | 122 |
7 Teleology | 126 |
8 The Will and Human Responsibility | 132 |
HUMAN WELFARE | 139 |
GOOD AND EVIL | 141 |
2 True Good and Supreme Good | 143 |
3 Perfection | 144 |
5 Vice and Virtue | 176 |
THE STATE AND POLITICS | 181 |
2 Philosophical Roots | 182 |
3 Natural Law Natural Rights and the State of Nature | 183 |
4 Sovereignty and Law | 188 |
5 The Rights and Powers of the Sovereign | 191 |
6 Limitations on the Power and Action of the State | 193 |
7 Political Freedom | 196 |
8 Practical Considerations | 197 |
RELIGION | 201 |
2 The Intellectual Love of God | 202 |
3 The Tractalus TheologicoPoliticus | 205 |
4 Revealed Religion and Superstition | 207 |
5 Biblical Criticism | 210 |
6 Prophecy | 215 |
7 The Election of the Jews | 219 |
8 Miracles | 221 |
9 The True and Universal Religion | 222 |
10 Spinozas attitude to Christianity | 225 |
HUMAN IMMORTALITY | 227 |
2 Traditional ideas of Immortality | 228 |
3 A Common Interpretation of Spinoza | 231 |
4 Difficulties and Criticisms | 232 |
5 Idea as Transcendent | 235 |
6 Time and Eternity | 237 |
7 Mind as Idea of Body | 239 |
8 Misinterpretations and Misconceptions | 243 |
9 Blessedness | 246 |
EPILOGUE | 247 |
SPINOZA IN RETROSPECT | 249 |
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX | 259 |
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Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
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