Being and Reason
An Essay on Spinoza's Metaphysics
(Sprache: Englisch)
In Spinoza's metaphysics there is only one substance, God or nature. Martin Lin offers a new interpretation, arguing against idealist readings where the metaphysical is grounded in something epistemic, logical, or psychological. In Lin's realist...
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In Spinoza's metaphysics there is only one substance, God or nature. Martin Lin offers a new interpretation, arguing against idealist readings where the metaphysical is grounded in something epistemic, logical, or psychological. In Lin's realist interpretation, finite natural creatures stand to God or nature as waves stand to an ocean.
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In Being and Reason, Martin Lin offers a new interpretation of Spinoza's core metaphysical doctrines with attention to how and why, in Spinoza, metaphysical notions are entangled with cognitive, logical, and epistemic ones. For example, according to Spinoza, a substance is that which can be conceived through itself and a mode is that which is conceived through another. Thus, metaphysical notions, substance and mode, are defined through a notion that is either cognitive or logical, being conceived through. What are we to make of the intimate connections that Spinoza sees between metaphysical, cognitive, logical, and epistemic notions? Or between being and reason? Lin argues against idealist readings according to which the metaphysical is reducible to or grounded in something epistemic, logical, or psychological. He maintains that Spinoza sees the order of being and the order of reason as two independent structures that mirror one another. In the course of making this argument, he develops new interpretations of Spinoza's notions of attribute and mode, and of Spinoza's claim that all things strive for self-preservation. Lin also argues against prominent idealist readings of Spinoza according to which the Principle of Sufficient Reason is absolutely unrestricted for Spinoza and is the key to his system. He contends, rather, that Spinoza's metaphysical rationalism is a diverse phenomenon and that the Principle of Sufficient Reason is limited to claims about existence and nonexistence which are applied only once by Spinoza to the case of the necessary existence of God.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Being and Reason “
- Introduction
- 1: Spinoza's Starting Points
- 2: Substance
- 3: God
- 4: The Attributes
- 5: Modes
- 6: The Conatus Doctrine
- 7: Metaphysical Rationalism
- Postscript: Spinoza's Realism
Autoren-Porträt von Martin Lin
Martin Lin is a professor of philosophy at Rutgers University in New Brunswick. His research concerns metaphysics and philosophy of mind in the early modern period.Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Martin Lin
- 2019, 212 Seiten, Maße: 15,6 x 23,4 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0198834152
- ISBN-13: 9780198834151
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
clear, well-written, and peppered with healthy self-irony.... interesting and stimulating... I am looking forward to continued engagement with this important work. Yitzhak Y. Melamed, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
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