The God of Spinoza - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The God of Spinoza write by Richard Mason. This book was released on 1999-07. The God of Spinoza available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is the fullest study in English for many years on the role of God in Spinoza's philosophy. Spinoza has been called both a 'God-intoxicated man' and an atheist, both a pioneer of secular Judaism and a bitter critic of religion. He was born a Jew but chose to live outside any religious community. He was deeply engaged both in traditional Hebrew learning and in contemporary physical science. He identified God with nature or substance: a theme which runs through his work, enabling him to naturalise religion but - equally important - to divinise nature. He emerges not as a rationalist precursor of the Enlightenment but as a thinker of the highest importance in his own right, both in philosophy and in religion.
The Philosophy of Spinoza - Special Edition
The Philosophy of Spinoza - Special Edition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Philosophy of Spinoza - Special Edition write by Baruch Spinoza. This book was released on 2010-02. The Philosophy of Spinoza - Special Edition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Philosophy of Spinoza - Special Edition contains the restored full length essays "On God," "On Man," and "On Man's Well Being" as well as an introduction and a biography of Spinoza.
Improvement of the Understanding
Improvement of the Understanding - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Improvement of the Understanding write by Benedictus de Spinoza. This book was released on 1901. Improvement of the Understanding available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Spinoza: Theological-Political Treatise
Spinoza: Theological-Political Treatise - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Spinoza: Theological-Political Treatise write by Jonathan Israel. This book was released on 2007-05-03. Spinoza: Theological-Political Treatise available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise (1670) is one of the most important philosophical works of the early modern period. In it Spinoza discusses at length the historical circumstances of the composition and transmission of the Bible, demonstrating the fallibility of both its authors and its interpreters. He argues that free enquiry is not only consistent with the security and prosperity of a state but actually essential to them, and that such freedom flourishes best in a democratic and republican state in which individuals are left free while religious organizations are subordinated to the secular power. His Treatise has profoundly influenced the subsequent history of political thought, Enlightenment 'clandestine' or radical philosophy, Bible hermeneutics, and textual criticism more generally. It is presented here in a translation of great clarity and accuracy by Michael Silverthorne and Jonathan Israel, with a substantial historical and philosophical introduction by Jonathan Israel.
The Role of God in Spinoza's Metaphysics
The Role of God in Spinoza's Metaphysics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Role of God in Spinoza's Metaphysics write by Sherry Deveaux. This book was released on 2007-02-26. The Role of God in Spinoza's Metaphysics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Baruch Spinoza began his studies learning Hebrew and the Talmud, only to be excommunicated at the age of twenty-four for supposed heresy. Throughout his life, Spinoza was simultaneously accused of being an atheist and a God-intoxicated man. Bertrand Russell said that, compared to others, Spinoza is ethically supreme, 'the noblest and most lovable of the great philosophers'. This book is an exploration of (a) what Spinoza understood God to be, (b) how, for him, the infinite and eternal power of God is expressed, and (c) how finite human beings can have a true idea of this greatest of all entities. Sherry Deveaux begins with an analytic discussion of these three questions, and an explication of three different views held by contemporary commentators on Spinoza. She then shows that the commonly held views about Spinoza are inconsistent with Spinoza's texts, especially his magnum opus, the Ethics. Next comes an analysis of topics in Spinoza that must be understood in order correctly to answer the three questions. For example, the notions of 'power' and 'true idea' are discussed, along with Spinoza's definition of the 'essence' of a thing, which is shown to be central to the discussion of Spinoza's God. Deveaux then claims that Spinoza defines God's essence as 'absolutely infinite and eternal power' and that, contrary to the commonly held view that God's essence is identical with the attributes (e.g., thought and extension), God's essence or "power" is expressed through the attributes.
