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Showing 1 to 20 of 50 for “"Spinoza"”.
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Affect before Spinoza: Reformed Faith, Affectus, and Experience in Jean Calvin, John Donne, John Milton and Baruch Spinoza
… emotions. On the contrary, Affect Before </p><p>Spinoza investigates the extent to which affects exceed, reconfigure and reorganize </p><p>bodies and subjects. Affects are constitutive of and integral to dynamic economies of </p><p>activity and passivity. This dissertation traces the origins and …
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Tilvist, máttur og tjáning. Að lesa Spinoza
… skynsemisverur sem hafi frjálsan vilja. Spinoza valtar yfir allar slíkar hugmyndir sem maðurinn hefur um sjálfan sig og eru honum kærastar. Hjá honum er hvorki greinarmunur né andstaða á milli hins mannlega og ómannlega, eða hins náttúrulega og menningarlega. Tilvistarmáttur hátta …
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DEBITUS ORDO. TRADIZIONE E ORIGINALITÀ NEL METODO DI SPINOZA.
… ordo. Tradition and originality of method in Spinoza. This research explores the philosophical significance of the ordo geometricus in Spinoza, focusing on the following three points: the controversial question of the rapport between form and content in his Ethica; the relationship between …
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Blessed thorns : a meditation on Spinoza's God
… been published over three hundred years ago, Spinoza's Ethics is a text that is still, even today, widely misunderstood. Two of the more common and persistent misunderstandings revolve around the accusations of some who have labeled his philosophy both atheistic and materialistic. These two …
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Theology and Politics in Maimonides, Spinoza, Hegel, and Nietzsche
… at least in its modern phase, was initiated by Spinoza. Spinoza's vision is contrasted with that of three other thinkers: Maimonides, Hegel, and Nietzsche. While Maimonides clearly represents the traditional, transcendentalist perspective and explicitly champions theocracy as a political ideal, …
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Rethinking Uncertainty: Spinoza and Hume on Shaping Uncertain Secular Futures
… thought of two modern philosophers, Baruch Spinoza and David Hume. Despite uncertainty's notable and multi-disciplinary appeal in the academic literature, the frame in which most scholars think about social and political uncertainty is one-sided. On the whole, contemporary scholars consider …
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Tekist á við illskuna: Vandinn um illskuna í ljósi heimspeki Spinoza
… megi á vandanum um illskuna í ljósi heimspeki Spinoza, einkum þeim hugmyndum sem koma fram í höfuðriti hans Siðfræðinni. Fyrst mun ég fjalla um röksemdafærsluna sem vandinn um illskuna hvílir á og hvað það er sem einkennir hann, einkum í ljósi trúarkenninga sem iðkaðar eru í vestrænni menningu. …
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Adriaan Koerbagh. La teologia-politica nel circolo di Spinoza tra democrazia e socinianesimo
… l’autonomia teorica e la radicalità rispetto a Spinoza. Attraverso un approccio integrato filologico, storico e filosofico, il lavoro analizza le opere edite e inedite, i documenti d’archivio, le vicende editoriali e giudiziarie e le modalità di ricezione del pensiero di Koerbagh. Particolare …
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Obscurity and involvement on the unconscious of thought in Leibniz, Spinoza, and Hume
… of thought in philosophical systems of Leibniz, Spinoza, and Hume, and analyze how these unconscious dimensions inform how each conceives of freedom and volition. I show that they develop robust accounts of unconscious perceptions, beliefs, desires, and habits of thinking, all of which …
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The ancient notion of self-preservation in the theories of Hobbes and Spinoza
… their well-being, came to influence Hobbes’s and Spinoza’s later accounts of natural, animal and social behaviour. The first section presents the ancient accounts of natural and animal bodily tendencies and explores the specific ways in which the Aristotelian, Stoic and Epicurean views on animal …
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Loving without memory: on the concept of salvation from Deleuze's Spinoza to Spinoza's Deleuze
… in light of its debt to that of Benedict de Spinoza to argue that an immanent and non-teleological conception of salvation can be found throughout Deleuze’s later works. I critically examine Deleuze’s reading of Spinoza found in his 1968 study before turning to a constructive reading of his …
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Discontinuities in immanent worlds: the human/nonhuman animal split in Spinoza and the Zhuāngzi
… for non-reductive formulations of difference, Spinoza has perhaps received the most scholarly attention in the last sixty years. Following the same aim to replace exclusionary paradigms of humanity with alternative formulations of human/nonhuman relations, a geographically richer variety of …
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The dehumanization of nature and the naturalization of the human: A study of Spinoza and Nietzsche
In this dissertation, I shall argue that Spinoza and Nietzsche alike were committed to a twofold task: that of dehumanizing nature and naturalizing the human. I will further argue that this is an ethical task insofar as their ultimate objective was to discover the real basis for human excellence. …
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Spinoza's Neoplatonism: The Metaphysics of the Unitive Knowledge and Love of God
Spinoza’s philosophy engages a vast array of topics and influences, which has resulted in a great diversity of interpretations. Among historically informed readings, there is a great amount of scholarship today on how the different sources of Spinoza shaped various aspects of his philosophy. …
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The Temporal Conatus and the Problem of Motion from Eternity
Spinoza’s theory of persistence is articulated through the conatus (EIp7) and the ratio of motion and rest (EIIp13). Section I explores Spinoza’s usage of “motion,” and illustrates that the conatus is essentially temporal. From this claim and Spinoza’s conception of eternity, the problem arises. I …
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Spinoza's Ethology: Recognizing Dynamic Transitions Between Imagination, Reason, and Intuition
… lens grinder and Dutch philosopher, Benedict de Spinoza, illuminates a rigorous and dynamic theory of knowledge and action in his major system the Ethics. What we learn by adequately learning Spinoza's epistemology is that within it is a proto-physics of ideational force between the three kinds …
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