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Author : William Louis Rabenort
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1911
Category : Education
ISBN : WISC:89094556438
Author : Johan Dahlbeck
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317394341
Spinoza and Education offers a comprehensive investigation into the educational implications of Spinoza’s moral theory. Taking Spinoza’s naturalism as its point of departure, it constructs a considered account of education, taking special care to investigate the educational implications of Spinoza’s psychological egoism. What emerges is a counterintuitive form of education grounded in the egoistic striving of the teacher to persevere and to flourish in existence while still catering to the ethical demands of the students and the greater community. In providing an educational reading of Spinoza’s moral theory, this book sets up a critical dialogue between educational theory and recent studies which highlight the centrality of ethics in Spinoza’s overall philosophy. By placing his work in a contemporary educational context, chapters explore a counterintuitive conception of education as an ethical project, aimed at overcoming the desire to seek short-term satisfaction and troubling the influential concept of the student as consumer. This book also considers how education, from a Spinozistic point of view, may be approached in terms of a kind of cognitive therapy serving to further a more scientifically adequate understanding of the world and aimed at combating prejudices and superstition. Spinoza and Education demonstrates that Spinoza’s moral theory can further an educational ideal, where notions of freedom and self-preservation provide the conceptual core of a coherent philosophy of education. As such, it will appeal to researchers, academics and postgraduate students in the fields of philosophy of education, theory of education, critical thinking, philosophy, ethics, and Spinoza studies.
Author : William Louis Rabenort
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1330671848
Excerpt from Spinoza as Educator After three and a half centuries Benedict Spinoza is more than ever an intellectual force to be reckoned with. His influence upon his own and immediately succeeding generations was of the slightest, and even when the teachings of the Jew of Amsterdam were no longer shunned, they were still misunderstood, and by none more profoundly than by Herder, Lessig, Goethe, and the others of that group of enthusiastic admirers which constitutes perhaps Spinoza's most obvious influence upon civilization. In the History of Philosophy he looms in majestic solitude, a peak but remotely joined to the adjacent heights. It is therefore not surprising to find his name conspicuously absent from the roll of philosophers who figure in the History of Education. The bibliography at the end of this essay is evidence of the interest manifested in Spinoza at the present time. Professor William James quoted him as an authority on psychology, and in the preface to his "Analytic Psychology," Dr. G. F. Stout acknowledges his pre-eminent indebtedness to Spinoza. The attempt made in the following pages to point out the educational implications of Spinoza's philosophy seemed to necessitate introductory summaries and interpretations which might have been omitted were the foundations of Spinoza's philosophy familiar to the students of education into whose hands this volume may come. The essay might then have been wholly devoted to the more practical if not more congenial task of discussing intensively one or another of the problems briefly treated in the final chapter. A fuller exposition of each of these topics would do much to clarify current educational thought, and it is hoped that the bearing of Spinoza's philosophy upon education will attract the labor of other hands. It is believed that further and broader studies will justify the conclusions herein expressed. 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 : William Louis Rabenort
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0243680562
Author : Johan Dahlbeck
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317394358
Spinoza and Education offers a comprehensive investigation into the educational implications of Spinoza’s moral theory. Taking Spinoza’s naturalism as its point of departure, it constructs a considered account of education, taking special care to investigate the educational implications of Spinoza’s psychological egoism. What emerges is a counterintuitive form of education grounded in the egoistic striving of the teacher to persevere and to flourish in existence while still catering to the ethical demands of the students and the greater community. In providing an educational reading of Spinoza’s moral theory, this book sets up a critical dialogue between educational theory and recent studies which highlight the centrality of ethics in Spinoza’s overall philosophy. By placing his work in a contemporary educational context, chapters explore a counterintuitive conception of education as an ethical project, aimed at overcoming the desire to seek short-term satisfaction and troubling the influential concept of the student as consumer. This book also considers how education, from a Spinozistic point of view, may be approached in terms of a kind of cognitive therapy serving to further a more scientifically adequate understanding of the world and aimed at combating prejudices and superstition. Spinoza and Education demonstrates that Spinoza’s moral theory can further an educational ideal, where notions of freedom and self-preservation provide the conceptual core of a coherent philosophy of education. As such, it will appeal to researchers, academics and postgraduate students in the fields of philosophy of education, theory of education, critical thinking, philosophy, ethics, and Spinoza studies.
Author : Matthew J. Kisner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139500098
Spinoza was one of the most influential figures of the Enlightenment, but his often obscure metaphysics makes it difficult to understand the ultimate message of his philosophy. Although he regarded freedom as the fundamental goal of his ethics and politics, his theory of freedom has not received sustained, comprehensive treatment. Spinoza holds that we attain freedom by governing ourselves according to practical principles, which express many of our deepest moral commitments. Matthew J. Kisner focuses on this theory and presents an alternative picture of the ethical project driving Spinoza's philosophical system. His study of the neglected practical philosophy provides an accessible and concrete picture of what it means to live as Spinoza's ethics envisioned.
Author : William Louis Rabenort
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1911
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006528942
Author : Benedictus de Spinoza
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Ethics
ISBN : HARVARD:32044084613553
Author : Clare Carlisle
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691224190
A bold reevaluation of Spinoza that reveals his powerful, inclusive vision of religion for the modern age Spinoza is widely regarded as either a God-forsaking atheist or a God-intoxicated pantheist, but Clare Carlisle says that he was neither. In Spinoza’s Religion, she sets out a bold interpretation of Spinoza through a lucid new reading of his masterpiece, the Ethics. Putting the question of religion centre-stage but refusing to convert Spinozism to Christianity, Carlisle reveals that “being in God” unites Spinoza’s metaphysics and ethics. Spinoza’s Religion unfolds a powerful, inclusive philosophical vision for the modern age—one that is grounded in a profound questioning of how to live a joyful, fully human life. Like Spinoza himself, the Ethics doesn’t fit into any ready-made religious category. But Carlisle shows how it wrestles with the question of religion in strikingly original ways, responding both critically and constructively to the diverse, broadly Christian context in which Spinoza lived and worked. Philosophy itself, as Spinoza practiced it, became a spiritual endeavor that expressed his devotion to a truthful, virtuous way of life. Offering startling new insights into Spinoza’s famously enigmatic ideas about eternal life and the intellectual love of God, Carlisle uncovers a Spinozist religion that integrates self-knowledge, desire, practice, and embodied ethical life to reach toward our “highest happiness”—to rest in God. Seen through Carlisle’s eyes, the Ethics prompts us to rethink not only Spinoza but also religion itself.
Author : Hasana Sharp
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226792484
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 : Rebecca Goldstein
Publisher : Schocken
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307514172
Part of the Jewish Encounter series In 1656, Amsterdam’s Jewish community excommunicated Baruch Spinoza, and, at the age of twenty–three, he became the most famous heretic in Judaism. He was already germinating a secularist challenge to religion that would be as radical as it was original. He went on to produce one of the most ambitious systems in the history of Western philosophy, so ahead of its time that scientists today, from string theorists to neurobiologists, count themselves among Spinoza’s progeny. In Betraying Spinoza, Rebecca Goldstein sets out to rediscover the flesh-and-blood man often hidden beneath the veneer of rigorous rationality, and to crack the mystery of the breach between the philosopher and his Jewish past. Goldstein argues that the trauma of the Inquisition’ s persecution of its forced Jewish converts plays itself out in Spinoza’s philosophy. The excommunicated Spinoza, no less than his excommunicators, was responding to Europe’ s first experiment with racial anti-Semitism. Here is a Spinoza both hauntingly emblematic and deeply human, both heretic and hero—a surprisingly contemporary figure ripe for our own uncertain age. From the Hardcover edition.
Author : Steven B. Smith
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780300128499
Offering a new reading of Spinoza's masterpiece, Smith asserts that the 'Ethics' is a celebration of human freedom and its attendant joys and responsibilities and should be placed among the great founding documents of the Enlightenment.
Author : Susan James
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198713074
Philosophising, as Spinoza conceives it, is the project of learning to live joyfully. This in turn is a matter of learning to live together, and the most obvious test of philosophical insight is our capacity to sustain a harmonious way of life. Susan James defends this interpretation and explores Spinoza's influence on contemporary debates.
Author : Johan Dahlbeck
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811671258
This book is a philosophical enquiry into the educational consequences of Spinoza’s political theory. Spinoza’s political theory is of particular interest for educational thought as it brings together the normative aims of his ethical theory with his realistic depiction of human psychology and the ramifications of this for successful political governance. As such, this book aims to introduce the reader to Spinoza’s original vision of civic education, as a project that ultimately aims at the ethical flourishing of individuals, while being carefully tailored and adjusted to the natural limitations of human reason. Readers will benefit from a succinct introduction to Spinoza’s political philosophy and from an account of civic education that is based on careful exegetical work. It draws conclusions only hinted at in Spinoza’s own writings.
Author : Steven Nadler
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691139890
When it appeared in 1670, Baruch Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise was denounced as the most dangerous book ever published. Religious and secular authorities saw it as a threat to faith, social and political harmony, and everyday morality, and its author was almost universally regarded as a religious subversive and political radical who sought to spread atheism throughout Europe. Steven Nadler tells the story of this book: its radical claims and their background in the philosophical, religious, and political tensions of the Dutch Golden Age, as well as the vitriolic reaction these ideas inspired. A vivid story of incendiary ideas and vicious backlash, A Book Forged in Hell will interest anyone who is curious about the origin of some of our most cherished modern beliefs--Jacket p. [2].