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A Rose Armed with Thorns: Spinoza's Philosophy Under a Novel Lens Amihud Gilead

A Rose Armed with Thorns: Spinoza's Philosophy Under a Novel Lens By Amihud Gilead

A Rose Armed with Thorns: Spinoza's Philosophy Under a Novel Lens by Amihud Gilead


Summary

Based upon an analysis of the relevant details in all of Spinoza's philosophical works, the book reveals many important points, including the following: Spinoza's system is not, nor is meant to be, a foundational-deductive system but was meant to be a coherent system of a network model.

A Rose Armed with Thorns: Spinoza's Philosophy Under a Novel Lens Summary

A Rose Armed with Thorns: Spinoza's Philosophy Under a Novel Lens by Amihud Gilead

This book presents a systemic analysis of Spinoza's philosophy and challenges the traditional views. It deals with Spinoza's concepts of substance, truth conditions, attributes, and the first, second, and supreme grades of knowledge. Based upon an analysis of the relevant details in all of Spinoza's philosophical works, the book reveals many important points, including the following: Spinoza's system is not, nor is meant to be, a foundational-deductive system but was meant to be a coherent system of a network model. Spinoza's reality is not made in the image of a mathematical model. Imaginatio, the first grade of knowledge, and ratio, the second grade, are parts or properties of the supreme grade of knowledge, scientia intuitiva, which is their essence. Finite beings, especially humans, are necessary and eternal (unless they are mistakenly perceived by imaginatio) whereas time, place, and death are simply entities of imagination. The salvation, happiness, and blessedness that Spinoza's Ethics offers us, are active and depend only upon us. Concluding a careful examination and interpretation, the book suggests additional novel viewpoints in interpreting Spinoza's philosophical psychology and political philosophy.

About Amihud Gilead

Amihud Gilead was born in Jerusalem in 1947. He is a Professor Emeritus at the Department of philosophy, the University of Haifa. For many years, his main research was devoted to the study of the history of philosophy, especially of early modern philosophy. From 1999 till now he introduced and has elaborated on an original modal metaphysics, panenmentalism, which is a special kind of possibilist realism about individual pure (non-actual) possibilities. Professor Gilead published various books and papers, most of them in English.

Table of Contents

1. Substance as the Systematic Unity of the Necessary Plurality.- 2. The Status of Individual Things in Spinoza's Substance.- 3. The Truth Conditions and the Problem of the Attributes.- 4. The First Grade of Knowledge-Imaginatio.- 5. The Second Grade of Knowledge (Ratio) and its Limitations.- 6. The Supreme Grade of Knowledge.- 7. The Desired System as a Goal Laying the Horizon.

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NLS9783030548124
9783030548124
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A Rose Armed with Thorns: Spinoza's Philosophy Under a Novel Lens by Amihud Gilead
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG
2021-08-12
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