Date : 2014
Type : Livre / Book
Langue / Language : anglais / English
ISBN : 978-0-19-931439-3
ISBN : 0-19-931439-X
EAN : 9780199314393
Spinoza -- Baruch -- 1632-1677
Résumé / Abstract : "This is a book about Spinoza’s metaphysics of Nature, why it is absolutely infinite, why it is divine, and why everything that is—man included—is in and of Nature. The book urges to put away Spinoza’s own deductive machinery whose ’model theory’ distracts us away from the intended structure to be described—Nature. And the structure unfolds not by following Spinoza linearly from part I of his Ethics down to part V, but rather by starting with his intuitive indications of what his subject matter is—in two key letters and in part V of his Ethics. Having elucidated in words—and no proofs—what the metaphysics is about, the book goes on to line up the main ingredients in Spinoza’s picture as laid down below chapter by chapter"