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Spinoza and medieval jewish philosophy
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ISBN: 9781107037861 9781139795395 Year: 2014 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge university Press,

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Over the last two decades there has been an increasing interest in the influence of medieval Jewish thought upon Spinoza's philosophy. The essays in this volume, by Spinoza specialists and leading scholars in the field of medieval Jewish philosophy, consider the various dimensions of the rich, important, but vastly under-studied relationship between Spinoza and earlier Jewish thinkers. It is the first such collection in any language, and together the essays provide a detailed and extensive analysis of how different elements in Spinoza's metaphysics, epistemology, moral philosophy, and political and religious thought relate to the views of his Jewish philosophical forebears, such as Maimonides, Gersonides, Ibn Ezra, Crescas, and others. The topics addressed include the immortality of the soul, the nature of God, the intellectual love of God, moral luck, the nature of happiness, determinism and free will, the interpretation of Scripture, and the politics of religion.


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The Cambridge companion to Malebranche
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ISBN: 052162729X 0521622123 9780521622127 9781139000628 9780521627290 Year: 2000 Volume: *24 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

A companion to early modern philosophy
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ISBN: 0631218009 Year: 2002 Volume: 23 Publisher: Oxford ; Berlin Blackwell Publishing

Spinoza's Ethics
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ISBN: 9780521544795 0521544793 9780521836203 0521836204 9780511815737 9780511220982 0511220987 9780511218996 0511218990 0511815735 0511218990 1107161401 9781107161405 1280480130 9781280480133 0511220472 9780511220470 0511316216 9780511316210 0511219679 9780511219672 Year: 2006 Publisher: New York Cambridge University Press

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Spinoza's Ethics is one of the most remarkable, important, and difficult books in the history of philosophy: a treatise simultaneously on metaphysics, knowledge, philosophical psychology, moral philosophy, and political philosophy. It presents, in Spinoza's famous 'geometric method', his radical views on God, Nature, the human being, and happiness. In this wide-ranging 2006 introduction to the work, Steven Nadler explains the doctrines and arguments of the Ethics, and shows why Spinoza's endlessly fascinating ideas may have been so troubling to his contemporaries, as well as why they are still highly relevant today. He also examines the philosophical background to Spinoza's thought and the dialogues in which Spinoza was engaged - with his contemporaries (including Descartes and Hobbes), with ancient thinkers (especially the Stoics), and with his Jewish rationalist forebears. His book is written for the student reader but will also be of interest to specialists in early modern philosophy.


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Spinoza's theory of divine providence : Rationalist solutions, Jewish sources.
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ISSN: 09237011 ISBN: 9055736287 9789055736287 Year: 2005 Volume: 87 Publisher: Budel Damon


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Spinoza and Jewish identity
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ISSN: 01793896 ISBN: 3826027159 9783826027154 Year: 2003 Volume: 13 Publisher: Würzburg Köningshausen und Neumann

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Occasionalism : causation among the Cartesians
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ISBN: 9780198250081 0198250088 0191712582 Year: 2011 Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,

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This book is a collection of essays on the problem of causation in seventeenth-century philosophy. Occasionalism is the doctrine, held by a number of early modern Cartesian thinkers, that created substances are devoid of any true causal powers, and that God is the only real causal agent in the universe. All natural phenomena have God as their direct and immediate cause, with natural things and their states serving only as “occasions” for God to act. Rather than being merely an ad hoc, deus ex machina response to the mind-body problem bequeathed by Descartes to his followers (especially Malebranche, Cordemoy, and La Forge), as it has often been portrayed in the past, occasionalism is in fact a full-blooded, complex, and philosophically interesting account of causal relations. These essays examine the philosophical, scientific, theological, and religious themes and arguments of occasionalism, as well as its roots in medieval views on God and causality.

Spinoza
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ISBN: 0521002931 0521552109 1107385164 0511815719 9780511815713 9780521552103 9780521002936 Year: 1999 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) was one of the most important philosophers of all time; he was also arguably the most radical and controversial. This was the first complete biography of Spinoza in any language and is based on detailed archival research. More than simply recounting the story of Spinoza's life, the book takes the reader right into the heart of Jewish Amsterdam in the seventeenth century and, with Spinoza's exile from Judaism, right into the midst of the tumultuous political, social, intellectual and religious world of the young Dutch Republic. Though the book will be an invaluable resource for philosophers, historians, and scholars of Jewish thought, it has been written for any member of the general reading public with a serious interest in philosophy, Jewish history, seventeenth-century European history, and the culture of the Dutch Golden Age. Spinoza: A Life has recently been awarded the Koret Jewish Book Award.


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A book forged in hell: Spinoza's scandalous treatise and the birth of the secular age
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ISBN: 9780691160184 069116018X Year: 2014 Publisher: Princeton (N.J.) Princeton University Press

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When it appeared in 1670, Baruch Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise was denounced as the most dangerous book ever published--"godless," "full of abominations," "a book forged in hell . . . by the devil himself." Religious and secular authorities saw it as a threat to faith, social and political harmony, and everyday morality, and its author was almost universally regarded as a religious subversive and political radical who sought to spread atheism throughout Europe. Yet Spinoza's book has contributed as much as the Declaration of Independence or Thomas Paine's Common Sense to modern liberal, secular, and democratic thinking. In A Book Forged in Hell, Steven Nadler tells the fascinating story of this extraordinary book: its radical claims and their background in the philosophical, religious, and political tensions of the Dutch Golden Age, as well as the vitriolic reaction these ideas inspired. It is not hard to see why Spinoza's Treatise was so important or so controversial, or why the uproar it caused is one of the most significant events in European intellectual history. In the book, Spinoza became the first to argue that the Bible is not literally the word of God but rather a work of human literature; that true religion has nothing to do with theology, liturgical ceremonies, or sectarian dogma; and that religious authorities should have no role in governing a modern state. He also denied the reality of miracles and divine providence, reinterpreted the nature of prophecy, and made an eloquent plea for toleration and democracy. A vivid story of incendiary ideas and vicious backlash, A Book Forged in Hell will interest anyone who is curious about the origin of some of our most cherished modern beliefs.


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Le meilleur des mondes possibles : la rencontre entre Leibniz, Malebranche et Arnauld
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ISBN: 9782227478527 2227478527 Year: 2010 Publisher: Montrouge : Bayard,

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C'est un combat de géants que nous peint Steven Nadler dans cet ouvrage. L'un fut le théologien et polémiste le plus célèbre de son temps, Arnauld; l'autre, le représentant le plus accompli de la philosophie dominante de l'époque, Malebranche; le troisième, l'esprit universel le plus brillant de son siècle, Leibniz. Plus de trois cents ans ont passé depuis leur rencontre et leurs échanges, souvent vifs, sur la justice divine et le sens de l'existence. Mais loin d'y voir un vestige de la pensée de la fin du Moyen Age, d'une mentalité encore centrée sur Dieu, bientôt détrônée par les penseurs du siècle des Lumières, Steven Nadler excelle à souligner l'importance de cet héritage. " Pourquoi y a-t-il quelque chose plutôt que rien? Pourquoi le malheur frappe-t-il ceux qui sont dans le droit chemin? Comment donner un sens à la souffrance et au mal? Autant de questions philosophiques qui n'ont pas fini, nous aussi, de nous tourmenter. " (Steven Nadler)

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