The Spinoza Quartet A Philosophical Novel

Author : Bernard Susser
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781304324047

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The Spinoza Quartet: A Philosophical Novel by Bernard Susser Pdf

The Spinoza Quartet follows four distinguished contemporary scholars of Spinoza's thought as they meet in Amsterdam to receive the Spinoza Prize. The four come from Jerusalem, San Diego, Vienna and New York, each with a different take on Spinoza's thought and very different temperaments and worldviews, and almost immediately the sparks fly. At several luncheons hosted by the Regents each speaks about their relationship to Spinoza, the man and the thinker. For the next week, prior to the gala ceremony, the four prize recipients walk the streets of Amsterdam arguing heatedly, exposing their personal idiosyncrasies and sharing their fraught biographies. Spinoza is never far from their exchanges. In the course of the spirited discussions the characters' personal outlooks as well as their views of Spinoza merge dramatically into a tense but deeply humane tale.

Author : Goce Smilevski
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2006-05-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780810123762

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Conversation with Spinoza by Goce Smilevski Pdf

Prizing ideas above all else, radical thinker Baruch Spinoza left little behind in the way of personal facts and furnishings. But what of the tug of necessity, the urgings of the flesh, to which this genius philosopher (and grinder of lenses) might have been no more immune than the next man-or the next character, as Baruch Spinoza becomes in this intriguing novel by the remarkable young Macedonian author Goce Smilevski. Smilevski's novel brings the thinker Spinoza and his inner life into conversation with the outer, all-too-real facts of his life and his day--from his connection to the Jewish community of Amsterdam, his excommunication in 1656, and the emergence of his philosophical system to his troubling feelings for his fourteen-year-old Latin teacher Clara Maria van den Enden and later his disciple Johannes Casearius. From this conversation there emerges a compelling and complex portrait of the life of an idea--and of a man who tries to live that idea.

Author : E.E. Harris
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401024952

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Salvation from Despair by E.E. Harris Pdf

My purpose in this book is to re-interpret the philosophy of Spinoza to a new generation. I make no attempt to compete with the historical scholar ship of A. H. Wolfson in tracing back Spinoza's ideas to his Ancient, Hebrew and Mediaeval forerunners, or the meticulous philosophical scrutiny of Harold Joachim, which I could wish to emulate but cannot hope to rival. I have simply relied upon the text of Spinoza's own writings in an effort to grasp and to make intelligible to others the precise meaning of his doctrine, and to decide whether, in spite of numerous apparent and serious internal conflicts, it can be understood as a consistent whole. In so doing I have found it necessary to correct what seem to me t0' be mis conceptions frequently entertained by commentators. Whether or not I am right in my re-interpretation, it will, I hope, contribute something fresh, if not to the knowledge of Spinoza, at least to the discussion of what he really meant to say. The limits within which I am constrained to write prevent me from drawing fully upon the great mass of scholarly writings on Spinoza, his life and times, his works and his philosophical ideas. I can only try to make amends for omissions by listing the most important works in the Spinoza bibliography, for reference by those who would seek to know more about his philosophy. This list I have added as an appendix.

Author : Frederick Pollock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0243616880

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Spinoza by Frederick Pollock Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1899
Category : Electronic book
ISBN : OCLC:1066512346

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Spinoza, His Life & Philosophy by Anonim Pdf

Author : Benedict de Spinoza
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1694403793

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The Ethics by Benedict de Spinoza Pdf

The Ethics, is a philosophical treatise written in Latin by Benedict de Spinoza. The book is perhaps the most ambitious attempt to apply the method of Euclid in philosophy. Spinoza puts forward a small number of definitions and axioms from which he attempts to derive hundreds of propositions and corollaries, such as "When the Mind imagines its own lack of power, it is saddened by it", "A free man thinks of nothing less than of death", and "The human Mind cannot be absolutely destroyed with the Body, but something of it remains which is eternal." According to Spinoza, God is Nature and Nature is God. This is his pantheism. In his previous book, Theologico-Political Treatise, Spinoza discussed the inconsistencies that result when God is assumed to have human characteristics. In the third chapter of that book, he stated that the word "God" means the same as the word "Nature". He wrote: "Whether we say ... that all things happen according to the laws of nature, or are ordered by the decree and direction of God, we say the same thing." Nature, to Spinoza, is a metaphysical substance, not physical matter. For Spinoza, God or Nature-being one and the same thing- is the whole, infinite, eternal, necessarily existing, active system of the universe within which absolutely everything exists. This is the fundamental principle of the Ethics.One of the early thinkers of the Enlightenment and modern biblical criticism, including modern conceptions of the self and the universe, he came to be considered one of the great rationalists of 17th-century philosophy. Inspired by the groundbreaking ideas of Ren� Descartes, Spinoza became a leading philosophical figure of the Dutch Golden Age. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel said, "The fact is that Spinoza is made a testing-point in modern philosophy, so that it may really be said: You are either a Spinozist or not a philosopher at all." His philosophical accomplishments and moral character prompted Gilles Deleuze to name him "the 'prince' of philosophers."

Author : Richard McKeon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258948818

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The Philosophy of Spinoza by Richard McKeon Pdf

This is a new release of the original 1928 edition.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1941
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : OCLC:4372801

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Philosophy of Benedict de Spinoza by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:636510572

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The Philosophy of Spinoza by Anonim Pdf

Author : Harry Austryn Wolfson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1934
Category : Ethics
ISBN : OCLC:427870530

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The Philosophy of Spinoza by Harry Austryn Wolfson Pdf

Author : Steven M. Nadler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Philosophers
ISBN : OCLC:1154529507

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Spinoza by Steven M. Nadler Pdf

Author : Benedictus de Spinoza
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1245829067

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Spinoza by Benedictus de Spinoza Pdf

Author : Yaacov Shavit
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110677300

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An Imaginary Trio by Yaacov Shavit Pdf

This book focuses on places and instances where Solomon’s legendary biography intersects with those of Jesus Christ and of Aristotle. Solomon is the axis around which this trio revolves, the thread that binds it together. It is based on the premise that there exists a correspondence, both overt and implied, between these three biographies, that has taken shape within a vast, multifaceted field of texts for more than two thousand years.

Author : Richard Peter McKeon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0918024471

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The Philosophy of Spinoza by Richard Peter McKeon Pdf

Author : Milton Karl Munitz
Publisher : MacMillan Publishing Company
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0023848502

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The Ways of Philosophy by Milton Karl Munitz Pdf