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Les Lumières radicales : la philosophie de Spinoza et la naissance de la modernité, 1650-1750
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ISBN: 9782354802196 2354802196 Year: 2020 Publisher: Paris: Amsterdam,

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Spinoza et les arts : [Colloque international Spinoza et les arts, 15-16-17 mai 2014, Amiens-Paris]

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La beauté, mon ami, n'est pas tant une qualité de l'objet considéré que son effet chez celui qui le considère" — écrivait Spinoza à Hugo Boxel en octobre 1674. Versé autant dans les arts libéraux que dans les arts mécaniques, le philosophe d'Amsterdam ne fut pas seulement philosophe. Tailleur de verre, sans doute acteur de théâtre, probablement dessinateur, il fréquenta la boutique d'antiquaire de Franciscus Van den Enden et fut proche de la société des arts Nil volentibus ardumm ; il habitait non loin de Rembrandt et Potter et appréciait la compagnie de peintres et de décorateurs. Elaborée au coeur du siècle d'or de la peinture hollandaise, cette philosophie a souvent inspiré poètes et écrivains, dramaturges et artistes. Comment expliquer un tel regard non nécessairement philosophique sur une philosophie qui ne présente pas une pensée développée sur les arts ? Comment expliquer qu'on ait tenté d'emprunter les voies de l'esthétique pour pénétrer une philosophie qui ne constitue pas ce champ de réflexion en un domaine autonome ? Ce livre fait le point sur l'état de la recherche. Il explore d'un point de vue historique, historiographique et philosophique ces aspects trop peu connus mais essentiels de la biographie, de l'entourage, de la pensée et de la réception de Spinoza. A défaut d'avoir une esthétique proprement dite, le spinozisme n'en contient pas moins de quoi nourrir une profonde réflexion sur la nature des arts et leurs usages au sein du projet éthique qui se présente lui-même comme un art de vivre.


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Spinoza on learning to live together
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ISBN: 9780198713074 9780192608864 019871307X Year: 2020 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press

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Philosophising, as Spinoza conceives it, is the project of learning to live joyfully. Yet this is also a matter of learning to live together, and the surest manifestation of philosophical insight is the capacity to sustain a harmonious way of life. Here, Susan James defends this overall interpretation of Spinoza's philosophy and explores its bearing on contemporary philosophical debates around issues such as religious toleration, putting our knowledge to work, and the environmental crisis. Part I focuses on Spinoza's epistemology. Philosophical understanding empowers us by giving us access to truths about ourselves and the world, and by motivating us to act on them. It gives us reasons for living together and enhances our ability to live co-operatively. Part II takes up Spinoza's claim that, to cultivate this kind of understanding, we need to live together in political communities. It explores his analysis of how states can develop a co-operative ethos. Finally, living joyfully compels us to look beyond the state to our relationship with the rest of nature. James concludes with discussions of some of the virtues this requires.


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The metaphysics of the material world : Suárez, Descartes, Spinoza
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ISBN: 9780190070229 0190070226 Year: 2020 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press

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In The Metaphysics of the Material World, Tad M. Schmaltz traces a particular development of the metaphysics of the material world in early modern thought. The route Schmaltz follows derives from a critique of Spinoza in the work of Pierre Bayle. Bayle charged in particular that Spinoza's monistic conception of the material world founders on the account of extension and its "modes" and parts that he inherited from Descartes, and that Descartes in turn inherited from late scholasticism, and ultimately from Aristotle. After an initial discussion of Bayle's critique of Spinoza and its relation to Aristotle's distinction between substance and accident, this study starts with the original re-conceptualization of Aristotle's metaphysics of the material world that we find in the work of the early modern scholastic Suárez. What receives particular attention is Suárez's introduction of the "modal distinction" and his distinctive account of the Aristotelian accident of "continuous quantity." This examination of Suárez is followed by a treatment of the connections of his particular version of the scholastic conception of the material world to the very different conception that Descartes offered. Especially important is Descartes's view of the relation of extended substance both to its modes and to the parts that compose it. Finally, there is a consideration of what these developments in Suárez and Descartes have to teach us about Spinoza's monistic conception of the material world. Of special concern here is to draw on this historical narrative to provide a re-assessment of Bayle's critique of Spinoza.


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The ethics of joy : Spinoza on the empowered life
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ISBN: 9780190086022 0190086025 Year: 2020 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Oxford University Press

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Philosopher Andrew Youpa offers a novel reading of Spinoza's moral philosophy. Unlike approaches to moral philosophy that center on praiseworthiness and blameworthiness, Youpa argues that Spinoza's moral philosophy is about how to live lovingly and joyously, not hatefully or sorrowfully. It is, fundamentally, an ethics of joy. Central to this reading is a defense of the view that there is a way of life that is best for human beings, and that what makes it best is its alignment with human nature. This is not, significantly, an ethics of accountability, or what a person does or does not deserve. Morality's role is not to assign credit or blame to individuals in an economy of good and evil; rather, it is to heal the sick and empower the vulnerable. It is an ethics centered on what, with respect to mental and physical well-being, requires our attention. Spinoza's ethics adheres to a medical model of morality, enacting and embodying a system of care to ourselves, care to others, and care to things in the world around us. From this approach, Youpa defends a comprehensive reading of Spinoza's moral philosophy, including its realism, pluralism, and the importance of friendship and education, which are the greatest sources of empowerment and joy. Empowering ourselves and others begins with love: the type of love that Spinoza refers to as the virtue of modestia, or humble devotion to others with their true well-being in mind. Youpa's examination starts with an original interpretaion of Spinoza's theory of emotions, and then turns to the metaphysical foundation of his moral philosophy and its normative and practical implications.

Philosophie der Renaissance
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ISBN: 9783787312603 3787312080 9783787312085 9783787312528 9783787312597 9783787312610 9783787312634 3787312528 3787312595 3787312633 3787312617 3787312609 Year: 2020 Volume: 13 Publisher: Hamburg Meiner

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Band 13 der Nachlassausgabe präsentiert fünf Texte Ernst Cassirers zur Philosophie der Renaissance, die in der Zeit von 1932 bis 1942 entstanden sind.Der erste Text ist ein Vortrag, den Cassirer im Juli 1932 unter dem Titel »Galileis Stellung in der Europäischen Geistesgeschichte« im PetrarcaHaus (Deutschitalienisches Kulturinstitut), Köln, hielt. Der zweite Text gibt eine Vorlesung (lecture) zum Thema »The Development of the Modern Concept of Nature in the Philosophy and Science of the Renaissance« wieder, die weitgehend Galilei gewidmet ist und im Juni 1934 öffentlich am University College, London, gehalten wurde. Der dritte Text stellt eine trimesterübergreifende Vorlesung (course) zum Thema »The Relations of Philosophical and Scientific Thought in their Historical Development« dar, die Cassirer im Hilary Term 1934 bzw. 1935 am Bedford College, London, vorgetragen hat und in die er größere Teile der am University College gehaltenen Vorlesung integrierte. Es folgt der Aufsatz »Giovanni Pico della Mirandola. Eine Studie zur Ideengeschichte der Renaissance«, den er im Juli 1938 für das »Journal of the Warburg Institut«, London, verfasste, dessen deutschsprachige Veröffentlichung aber nicht zustande kam. Eine leicht abgewandelte englische Fassung des Aufsatzes erschien 1942 im »Journal of the History of Ideas«, Philadelphia. Den fünften Text bildet der englischsprachige Vortrag »Pico della Mirandola«, den Cassirer, sich auf den Aufsatz von 1938 bzw. 1942 stützend, im April 1942 vor der »New England Group for Renaissance Studies« an der Yale University, New Haven, gehalten hat.

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