Samuel Newlands

Reconceiving Spinoza

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Produktbeschreibung

Samuel Newlands presents a sweeping new interpretation of Spinoza's metaphysical system and the way in which his metaphysics shapes, and is shaped by, his moral program. Engaging with contemporary metaphysics and ethics, Newlands reveals just how exciting and vibrant Spinoza's philosophical outlook remains for philosophers today.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780198817260
• ISBN-10: 0198817266
• Artikelnr.: 50905895

Autorenporträt

Samuel Newlands is William J. and Dorothy K. O'Neill Collegiate Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of numerous articles on early modern philosophy and the co-editor (with Larry Jorgensen) of Metaphysics and the Good (2009) and New Essays on Leibniz's Theodicy (2014).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1.: The Desiderata of Perfection
2.: Spinoza's Conceptualist Strategy
3.: Conceptual Dependence Monism
4.: Spinoza's Metaphysics of Modality
5.: A Conceptualist Account of Essences
6.: Elusive Individuals
7.: Ethics, Motivation and Egoism
8.: Moral Transformation and Self-Transcendence
9.: The Nature of the Conceptual