Overview
- Is entirely different from any other publication concerning Spinoza’s philosophy
- Challenges various widespread misunderstandings in interpretations of Spinoza’s philosophy
- Presents a range of important insights and arguments
Part of the book series: International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées (ARCH, volume 232)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Rose Armed with Thorns: Spinoza’s Philosophy Under a Novel Lens
Authors: Amihud Gilead
Series Title: International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54810-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-54809-4Published: 11 August 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-54812-4Published: 12 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-54810-0Published: 10 August 2020
Series ISSN: 0066-6610
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0307
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 320
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations