Spinoza And The Cunning Of Imagination

Author : Eugene Garver
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 316 pages
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Release : 2018-10-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226575735

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Spinoza and the Cunning of Imagination by Eugene Garver Pdf

Spinoza’s Ethics, and its project of proving ethical truths through the geometric method, have attracted and challenged readers for more than three hundred years. In Spinoza and the Cunning of Imagination, Eugene Garver uses the imagination as a guiding thread to this work. Other readers have looked at the imagination to account for Spinoza’s understanding of politics and religion, but this is the first inquiry to see it as central to the Ethics as a whole—imagination as a quality to be cultivated, and not simply overcome. ?Spinoza initially presents imagination as an inadequate and confused way of thinking, always inferior to ideas that adequately represent things as they are. It would seem to follow that one ought to purge the mind of imaginative ideas and replace them with rational ideas as soon as possible, but as Garver shows, the Ethics don’t allow for this ultimate ethical act until one has cultivated a powerful imagination. This is, for Garver, “the cunning of imagination.” The simple plot of progress becomes, because of the imagination, a complex journey full of reversals and discoveries. For Garver, the “cunning” of the imagination resides in our ability to use imagination to rise above it.

Author : Eugene Garver
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226575568

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Spinoza and the Cunning of Imagination by Eugene Garver Pdf

Spinoza’s Ethics, and its project of proving ethical truths through the geometric method, have attracted and challenged readers for more than three hundred years. In Spinoza and the Cunning of Imagination, Eugene Garver uses the imagination as a guiding thread to this work. Other readers have looked at the imagination to account for Spinoza’s understanding of politics and religion, but this is the first inquiry to see it as central to the Ethics as a whole—imagination as a quality to be cultivated, and not simply overcome. ​Spinoza initially presents imagination as an inadequate and confused way of thinking, always inferior to ideas that adequately represent things as they are. It would seem to follow that one ought to purge the mind of imaginative ideas and replace them with rational ideas as soon as possible, but as Garver shows, the Ethics don’t allow for this ultimate ethical act until one has cultivated a powerful imagination. This is, for Garver, “the cunning of imagination.” The simple plot of progress becomes, because of the imagination, a complex journey full of reversals and discoveries. For Garver, the “cunning” of the imagination resides in our ability to use imagination to rise above it.

Author : Hasana Sharp
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226792484

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Spinoza and the Politics of Renaturalization by Hasana Sharp Pdf

There have been many Spinozas over the centuries: atheist, romantic pantheist, great thinker of the multitude, advocate of the liberated individual, and rigorous rationalist. The common thread connecting all of these clashing perspectives is Spinoza’s naturalism, the idea that humanity is part of nature, not above it. In this sophisticated new interpretation of Spinoza’s iconoclastic philosophy, Hasana Sharp draws on his uncompromising naturalism to rethink human agency, ethics, and political practice. Sharp uses Spinoza to outline a practical wisdom of “renaturalization,” showing how ideas, actions, and institutions are never merely products of human intention or design, but outcomes of the complex relationships among natural forces beyond our control. This lack of a metaphysical or moral division between humanity and the rest of nature, Sharp contends, can provide the basis for an ethical and political practice free from the tendency to view ourselves as either gods or beasts. Sharp’s groundbreaking argument critically engages with important contemporary thinkers—including deep ecologists, feminists, and race and critical theorists—making Spinoza and the Politics of Renaturalization vital for a wide range of scholars.

Author : Christopher Skeaff
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226555508

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Becoming Political by Christopher Skeaff Pdf

In this pathbreaking work, Christopher Skeaff argues that a profoundly democratic conception of judgment is at the heart of Spinoza’s thought. Bridging Continental and Anglo-American scholarship, critical theory, and Spinoza studies, Becoming Political offers a historically sensitive, meticulous, and creative interpretation of Spinoza’s texts that reveals judgment as the communal element by which people generate power to resist domination and reconfigure the terms of their political association. If, for Spinoza, judging is the activity which makes a people powerful, it is because it enables them to contest the project of ruling and demonstrate the political possibility of being equally free to articulate the terms of their association. This proposition differs from a predominant contemporary line of argument that treats the people’s judgment as a vehicle of sovereignty—a means of defining and refining the common will. By recuperating in Spinoza’s thought a “vital republicanism,” Skeaff illuminates a line of political thinking that decouples democracy from the majoritarian aspiration to rule and aligns it instead with the project of becoming free and equal judges of common affairs. As such, this decoupling raises questions that ordinarily go unasked: what calls for political judgment, and who is to judge? In Spinoza’s vital republicanism, the political potential of life and law finds an affirmative relationship that signals the way toward a new constitutionalism and jurisprudence of the common.

Author : Eugene Garver
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 590 pages
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Release : 2010-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781459606104

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Confronting Aristotle's Ethics by Eugene Garver Pdf

What is the good life? Posing this question today would likely elicit very different answers. Some might say that the good life means doing good - improving one's community and the lives of others. Others might respond that it means doing well - cultivating one's own abilities in a meaningful way. But for Aristotle these two distinct ideas - doi...

Author : Willard Clark Gore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1902
Category : Imagination
ISBN : UCAL:B3927310

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The Imagination in Spinoza and Hume by Willard Clark Gore Pdf

Author : Moira Gatens,Genevieve Lloyd
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2002-01-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134708161

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Collective Imaginings by Moira Gatens,Genevieve Lloyd Pdf

Why would the work of the 17th century philosopher Benedict de Spinoza concern us today? How can Spinoza shed any light on contemporary thought? In this intriguing book, Moira Gatens and Genevieve Lloyd show us that in spite of or rather because of Spinoza's apparent strangeness, his philosophy can be a rich resource for cultural self-understanding in the present. Collective Imaginings draws on recent re-assessments of the philosophy of Spinoza to develop new ways of conceptualising issues of freedom and difference. This ground-breaking study will be invaluable reading to anyone wishing to gain a fresh perspective on Spinoza's thought.

Author : Susan James
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199698127

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Spinoza on Philosophy, Religion, and Politics by Susan James Pdf

Susan James explores the revolutionary political thought of one of the most radical and creative of modern philosophers, Baruch Spinoza. His Theologico-Political Treatise of 1670 defends religious pluralism, political republicanism, and intellectual freedom. James shows how this work played a crucial role in the development of modern society.

Author : Willard Clark Gore
Publisher : Andesite Press
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1297552962

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The Imagination in Spinoza and Hume by Willard Clark Gore Pdf

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Author : Antonio Negri
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0816636702

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The Savage Anomaly by Antonio Negri Pdf

In this essential rereading of Spinoza's (1632-1677) philosophical and political writings, Negri positions this thinker within the historical context of the development of the modern state and its attendant political economy. Through a close examination of Spinoza, Negri reveals turn as unique among his contemporaries for his nondialectical approach to social organization in a bourgeois age.

Author : Willard Clark Gore
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-21
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0365226017

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The Imagination in Spinoza and Hume by Willard Clark Gore Pdf

Excerpt from The Imagination in Spinoza and Hume: A Comparative Study in the Light of Some Recent Contributions to Psychology The object of this study is to make a specific test, or at least to find an illustration; of the general proposition that philosophy; or meta physics, and psychology form _a logical partnership, an organic unity, which cannot be ignored or dissolved without impairing interests that each holds to be peculiarly its own. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Berthold Auerbach
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Philosophers
ISBN : IND:30000041561915

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Spinoza by Berthold Auerbach Pdf

Author : Emily Thomas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107178687

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Early Modern Women on Metaphysics by Emily Thomas Pdf

Investigates early modern women philosophers' views on reality, matter, time and mind, uncovering neglected perspectives and demonstrating their historical importance.

Author : Lorraine Smith Pangle
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226688336

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Reason and Character by Lorraine Smith Pangle Pdf

What does it mean to live a good life or a happy life, and what part does reason play in the quest for fulfillment? Proceeding by means of a close and thematically selective commentary on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, this book offers a novel interpretation of Aristotle’s teachings on the relation between reason and moral virtue. Pangle shows how Aristotle’s arguments for virtue as the core of happiness and for reason as the guide to virtue emerge in dialectical response to Socrates’s paradoxical claim that virtue is knowledge and vice is ignorance, and as part of a politically complex project of giving guidance to lawgivers and ordinary citizens while offering spurs to deep theoretical reflection. Against Socrates, Aristotle insists that both virtue and vice are voluntary and that individuals are responsible for their characters, a stance that lends itself to vigorous defense of moral responsibility. At the same time, Pangle shows, Aristotle elucidates the importance of unchosen concerns in shaping all that we do and the presence of some form of ignorance or subtle confusions in all moral failings. Thus the gap between his position and that of Socrates comes on close inspection to be much smaller than first appears, and his true teaching on the role of reason in shaping moral existence far more complex. The book offers fresh interpretations of Aristotle’s teaching on the relation of passions to judgments, on what it means to choose virtue for its own sake, on the way reason finds the mean, especially in justice, and on the crucial intellectual virtue of phronesis or active wisdom and its relation to theoretical wisdom. Offering answers to longstanding debates over the status of reason and the meaning of happiness in the Nicomachean Ethics, this book will kindle in readers a new appreciation for Aristotle’s lessons on how to make the most out of life, as individuals and in society.

Author : Don Garrett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190880002

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Nature and Necessity in Spinoza's Philosophy by Don Garrett Pdf

Spinoza's guiding commitment to the thesis that nothing exists or occurs outside of the scope of nature and its necessary laws makes him one of the great seventeenth-century exemplars of both philosophical naturalism and explanatory rationalism. Nature and Necessity in Spinoza's Philosophy brings together for the first time eighteen of Don Garrett's articles on Spinoza's philosophy, ranging over the fields of metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, ethics, and political philosophy. Taken together, these influential articles provide a comprehensive interpretation of that philosophy, including Spinoza's theories of substance, thought and extension, causation, truth, knowledge, individuation, representation, consciousness, conatus, teleology, emotion, freedom, responsibility, virtue, contract, the state, and eternity-and the deep interrelations among them. Each article aims to resolve significant problems in the understanding of Spinoza's philosophy in such a way as to make evident both his reasons for his views and the enduring value of his ideas. At the same time, Garrett's articles elucidate the relations between his philosophy and those of predecessors and contemporaries like Aristotle, Hobbes, Descartes, Locke, and Leibniz. Lastly, the volume offers important and substantial replies to leading critics on four crucial topics: the necessary existence of God (Nature), substance monism, necessitarianism, and consciousness.