Spinoza and the Case for PhilosophyCambridge University Press, 8 dec 2014 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. |
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The Exegetic Inadequacy | |
The Context | |
Remark on Spinoza and the Averroist | |
Ethics IIPropositions 113 4 1 The Centrality of Propositions 11 and 13 | |
A Few General Remarks | |
Part IV | |
Adequacy Truth Knowledge | |
Man a Mode ofthe Substance | |
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