Being and Reason

Being and Reason
Author: Martin Lin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2019
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0198834152

In Spinoza's metaphysics there is only one substance, God or nature. Martin Lin offers a new interpretation, arguing against idealist readings where the metaphysical is grounded in something epistemic, logical, or psychological. In Lin's realist interpretation, finite natural creatures stand to God or nature as waves stand to an ocean.

On Beings of Reason

On Beings of Reason
Author: Francisco Suárez
Publisher:
Total Pages: 164
Release: 1995
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN:

This translation of Suarez's 54th Disputation documents the ancient Greek and Medieval sources of his discussion. It also considers Suarez's influence upon hitherto unknown late scholastic writers and the relevance of his intentionality theory to figures such as Descartes and Kant.

Spinoza in Twenty-First-Century American and French Philosophy

Spinoza in Twenty-First-Century American and French Philosophy
Author: Jack Stetter
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 617
Release: 2019-02-07
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1350067326

Over recent decades, Spinoza scholarship has significantly developed in both France and the United States, shedding new light on the work of this major philosopher. Spinoza in Twenty-First-Century American and French Philosophy systematically unites for the first time American and French Spinoza specialists in conversation with each other, illustrating the fecundity of bringing together diverse approaches to the study of Early Modern philosophy. Spinoza in Twenty-First-Century American and French Philosophy gives readers a unique opportunity to discover the most consequential and sophisticated aspects of American and French Spinoza research today. Featuring chapters by American scholars with French experts responding to these, the book is structured according to the themes of Spinoza's philosophy, including metaphysics, philosophy of mind, moral philosophy and political philosophy. The contributions consider the full range of Spinoza's philosophy, with chapters addressing not only the Ethics but his lesser-known early works and political works as well. Issues covered include Spinoza's views on substance and mode, his conception of number, his account of generosity as freedom, and many other topics.

Spinoza's Metaphysics

Spinoza's Metaphysics
Author: Yitzhak Y. Melamed
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2015-03
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0190237341

This book offers a new and radical interpretation of the core of Spinoza's metaphysics. The first half of the book, which concentrates on the metaphysics of substance, suggests a new reading of Spinoza's key concepts of Substance and Mode, of Spinoza's pantheism and monism, and of his understanding of causation. The second half addresses Spinoza's metaphysics of Thought and presents three bold and interrelated theses on Spinoza's two doctrines of parallelism, on the multifaceted structure of ideas, and on Spinoza's reasons for holding that we cannot know any attributes of God, or Nature, other than Thought and Extension. Finally, the author shows that Spinoza assigns clear priority to the attribute of Thought without embracing reductive idealism.

Mind, Reason, and Being-in-the-world

Mind, Reason, and Being-in-the-world
Author: Joseph K. Schear
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2013
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 041548586X

The 14 specially commissioned chapters in this superb collection enrich McDowell and Dreyfus's debate over perceptual experience, rationality, reflectiveness, and perception. Mind, Reason and Being-in-the-World: The McDowell-Dreyfus Debate should be considered essential reading for both students and scholars of analytic philosophy and phenomenology.

Being and Time

Being and Time
Author: Martin Heidegger
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 612
Release: 2008-07-22
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0061575593

"What is the meaning of being?" This is the central question of Martin Heidegger's profoundly important work, in which the great philosopher seeks to explain the basic problems of existence. A central influence on later philosophy, literature, art, and criticism—as well as existentialism and much of postmodern thought—Being and Time forever changed the intellectual map of the modern world. As Richard Rorty wrote in the New York Times Book Review, "You cannot read most of the important thinkers of recent times without taking Heidegger's thought into account." This first paperback edition of John Macquarrie and Edward Robinson's definitive translation also features a new foreword by Heidegger scholar Taylor Carman.

Ens Rationis from Suarez to Caramuel

Ens Rationis from Suarez to Caramuel
Author: Daniel Novotny
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2013-04-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 0823244768

The influence of the Spanish Jesuit Francisco Suarez (1548-1617) on 17th-century philosophy, theology, and law can hardly be underestimated. In this groundbreaking book, Daniel D. Novotny explores one of the most controversial topics of Suarez's philosophy: "beings of reason." Beings of reason are impossible intentional objects, such as blindness and square-circle. The first part of this book is structured around a close reading of Suarez's main text on the subject, namely Disputation 54. The second part centers on texts on this topic by other outstanding philosophers of the time, such as the Spanish Jesuit Pedro Hurtado de Mendoza (1578-1641), the Italian Franciscan Bartolomeo Mastri (1602-73), and the Spanish-Bohemian-Luxembourgian polymath Juan Caramuel de Lobkowitz (1606-82). The book should be of interest not just to those concerned with beings of reason but also for all those with a broader interest in the history of the period. It is written in a clear style that will make it appealing both to historians of philosophy and to anyone interested in applying analytical tools to the history of philosophy.

On the Borders of Being and Knowing

On the Borders of Being and Knowing
Author: John P. Doyle
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2012
Genre: History
ISBN: 9058678954

On the Borders of Being and Knowing begins with Greeks distinguishing "being" from "something" and proceeds to the late Scholastic doctrine of "supertranscendental being," which embraces both.