Spinoza's Metaphysics: An Essay in InterpretationHarvard University Press, 1969 - 174 pagine “This valuable study presents a provocative and genuinely original interpretation of Spinoza. Writing in a style that is both clear and elegant, E. M. Curley takes a fresh look at the fundamental tenets of Spinoza’s metaphysics and reconstructs them with thoughtful precision. He introduces his work with an analysis of the serious disagreement among Spinoza scholars regarding matters of basic interpretation and shows the weaknesses of two of the most prominent lines of interpretation, those of H. H. Joachim and H. A. Wolfson.He then explains his own novel and quite radical interpretation of Spinoza’s metaphysics. Couching his argument largely in the language of twentieth-century philosophy, he focuses on four doctrines: that every finite thing is a mode of the one substance, that God is the cause of all things, that every truth is a necessary truth, and that a mode of thought and its corresponding mode of expression are the same. In a study that is both an explanation and a defense of Spinozism, Mr. Curley not only clarifies abstruse elements of the Spinozistic system but also offers intriguing interpretations of the contemporary views he employs to explain Spinoza’s intentions.”- Publisher |
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Pagina 90
... necessity is like Leibniz ' hypothetical necessity . It has the form : given p , q is necessary . But it is also , and more important , unlike hypothetical necessity . The proposition ( or set of propositions ) relative to which q is ...
... necessity is like Leibniz ' hypothetical necessity . It has the form : given p , q is necessary . But it is also , and more important , unlike hypothetical necessity . The proposition ( or set of propositions ) relative to which q is ...
Pagina 92
... necessity of the proposition , or we lack sufficient scientific infor- mation to perceive its relative necessity . This lack of information may be an ignorance of the relevant laws , or of the antecedent conditions , or both . The ...
... necessity of the proposition , or we lack sufficient scientific infor- mation to perceive its relative necessity . This lack of information may be an ignorance of the relevant laws , or of the antecedent conditions , or both . The ...
Pagina 116
... necessity . The first is that possessed by the most general nomological facts , those constituting the nature of the divine attributes . These , since they do not and cannot owe their existence to anything else , possess a necessity ...
... necessity . The first is that possessed by the most general nomological facts , those constituting the nature of the divine attributes . These , since they do not and cannot owe their existence to anything else , possess a necessity ...
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The Definitions of Substance and Mode I | 2 |
The Causality of God | 44 |
Necessity | 82 |
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