The Imagination In Spinoza And Hume

Author : Willard Clark Gore
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Category : Psychology
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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 : Willard Clark Gore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
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Release : 1902
Category : Imagination
ISBN : UCAL:B3927310

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Author : Willard Clark Gore
Publisher : Andesite Press
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Release : 2015-08-08
Category : Electronic
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Willard Clark Gore
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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

Author : Willard Clark Gore
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Release : 2013-09
Category : Electronic
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The Imagination in Spinoza and Hume; a Comparative Study in the Light of Some Recent Contributions to Psychology by Willard Clark Gore Pdf

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ... PART I. A STATEMENT OF SPINOZA'S THEORY OF THE IMAGINATION. Spinoza's identification of the imagination with the source of all falsehood, error, and confusion--a doctrine which runs in varying forms through nearly all of his works, and which is so fully and consistently worked out, taking it as a whole, that it may fairly be called a theory of the imagination -- is not to be intelligently stated or appreciated, it almost goes without saying, apart from the main body of his philosophyWhat was the need, the problem, that this doctrine arose to meet? What did it contribute toward the attainment of the end proposed as a solution? In what respects, if any, does it appear inconsistent, or inadequate ? and why? These questions openly confess to the assumptions that Spinoza was conscious of a problem, did propose a certain end as a solution, and developed a theory of the imagination as one of the means--not necessarily the only one--of attaining the end. It is believed, however, that these assumptions rest on Spinoza's own statements, especially on those in the autobiographical portion of that propaedeutic to his philosophy, the Tractatus de Intcllectus Emendation c. SEC. I. THE NATURE OF SPINOZA'S PROBLEM. Experience, we are told in the Tractatus de Intellectus Emendatione, had taught Spinoza that the commonly accepted goods of life are vain and futile; that the all-absorbing ideals commonly conceived to constitute the summum bonum -- riches, fame, and the pleasures of sense-- when realized are found to be uncertain and fleeting, followed by melancholy and a dulled intellect in the case of the pleasures of sense, and by perpetual dissatisfaction with successive attainment in the case of fame and riches. The same problem is suggested elsewhere...

Author : Willard Clark Gore
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Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Education
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The Imagination in Spinoza and Hume: A Comparative Study in the Light of Some Recent Contributions to Psychology; Volume 2 by Willard Clark Gore Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Willard Clark Gore
Publisher : Nabu Press
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Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1295286386

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Author : Timothy M. Costelloe
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 248 pages
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Release : 2017-08-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781474436427

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Imagination in Hume's Philosophy by Timothy M. Costelloe Pdf

Explores the contemporary significance of Alfred North Whitehead's 1927 book Symbolism: Its Meaning and Effect

Author : Jan Wilbanks
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 187 pages
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Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401507097

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Hume’s Theory of Imagination by Jan Wilbanks Pdf

The present work is, as its title indicates, a study of Hume's theory of imagination. Naturally, it is a study of a particular sort. It has a certain scope and limitations, takes a certain line of approach, exhibits certain emphases, has certain ends-in-view, etc. As an initial step in specifying the nature of this study, I shall indicate its central problem, i. e. , that problem to the solution of which the solutions of the various other problems with which it is concerned are merely means. The central problem of this study is that of determining how Hume's theory of im agination is related to, or involved in, the generic features and main lines of argument of his philosophy of the human understanding. The expression "philosophy of the human understanding" is obvious to allude to a restriction on the scope of this investigation. ly intended Actually, it is a title suggested to me by two of Hume's philosophical writings; and to anyone who is even modestly acquainted with these writings, its reference should be no mystery. Hume published the first two so-called "Books" of his A Treatise of Human Nature in 1739. The first of these two Books was entitled "Of the Human Understanding. " Nine years later, he published a work under the title, An Enquiry Con cerning Human Understanding.

Author : Tito Magri
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 511 pages
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Release : 2022-09-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192679116

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Hume's Imagination by Tito Magri Pdf

This book proposes a new and systematic interpretation of the mental nature, function and structure, and importance of the imagination in Book 1, 'Of the Understanding', of Hume's Treatise of Human Nature. The proposed interpretation has deeply revisionary implications for Hume's philosophy of mind and for his naturalism, epistemology, and stance to scepticism. The book remedies a surprising blindspot in Hume scholarship and contributes to the current, lively philosophical debate on imagination. Hume's philosophy, if rightly understood, gives suggestions about how to treat imagination as a mental natural kind, its cognitive complexity and variety of functions notwithstanding. Hume's imagination is a faculty of inference and the source of a distinctive kind of idea, which complements our sensible representations of objects. Our cognitive nature, if restricted to the representation of objects and of their relations, would leave ordinary and philosophical cognition seriously underdetermined and expose us to scepticism. Only the non-representational, inferential faculty of the imagination can put in place and vindicate ideas like causation, body, and self, which support our cognitive practices. The book reconstructs how Hume's naturalist inferentialism about the imagination develops this fundamental insight. Its five parts deal with the dualism of representation and inference; the explanation of generality and modality; the production of causal ideas; the production of spatial and temporal content, and the distinction of an external world of bodies and an internal one of selves; and the replacement of the understanding with imagination in the analysis of cognition and in epistemology.

Author : Jan Wilbanks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
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Release : 2024-06-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9401507104

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Hume's Theory of Imagination by Jan Wilbanks Pdf

Author : E. J. Furlong
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 136 pages
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Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317851684

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Imagination by E. J. Furlong Pdf

First published in 2002. This essay has its origin primarily in some of the remarks on imagination made by Professor Ryle in The Concept of Mind. Reflection on arguments used in that book led the author to make the distinctions which have been indicated by the phrases 'in imagination', with imagination', and the term 'supposal'. This book is mainly a philosophical study of the leading concepts.

Author : Paul Ricoeur
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 394 pages
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Release : 2024-03-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226820545

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Lectures on Imagination by Paul Ricoeur Pdf

Ricoeur’s theory of productive imagination in previously unpublished lectures. The eminent philosopher Paul Ricoeur was devoted to the imagination. These previously unpublished lectures offer Ricoeur’s most significant and sustained reflections on creativity as he builds a new theory of imagination through close examination, moving from Aristotle, Pascal, Spinoza, Hume, and Kant to Ryle, Price, Wittgenstein, Husserl, and Sartre. These thinkers, he contends, underestimate humanity’s creative capacity. While the Western tradition generally views imagination as derived from the reproductive example of the image, Ricoeur develops a theory about the mind’s power to produce new realities. Modeled most clearly in fiction, this productive imagination, Ricoeur argues, is available across conceptual domains. His theory provocatively suggests that we are not constrained by existing political, social, and scientific structures. Rather, our imaginations have the power to break through our conceptual horizons and remake the world.

Author : Genevieve Lloyd
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0415186226

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Spinoza: The reception and influence of Spinoza's philosophy by Genevieve Lloyd Pdf

These volumes provide a comprehensive selection of high quality critical discussions of Spinoza's philosophy published in, or translated into English since 1970.

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.