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Meaning in Spinoza's method

Author: Aaron Garrett
Publisher: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Readers of Spinoza's philosophy have often been daunted, and sometimes been enchanted, by the geometrical method which he employs in his philosophical masterpiece the Ethics. In Meaning in Spinoza's Method Aaron Garrett examines this method and suggests that its purpose, in Spinoza's view, was not just to present claims and propositions but also in some sense to change the readers and allow them to look at  Read more...
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Named Person: Benedictus de Spinoza; Benedictus de Spinoza; Benedictus de Spinoza; Benedictus de Spinoza; Benedictus de Spinoza
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Aaron Garrett
ISBN: 052182611X 9780521826112
OCLC Number: 52620854
Description: xii, 240 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: A worm in the blood: some central themes in Sinoza's Ethics --
A few further basic concepts --
Emendative therapy and the Tractatus de Intellectus Emendatione --
Method:analysis and synthesis --
Maimonides and Gersonides --
Definitions in Spinoza's Ethics: where they come from and what they are for --
The third kind of knowledge and "our" eternity.
Responsibility: Aaron V. Garrett.
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"Readers of Spinoza's philosophy have often been daunted, and sometimes been enchanted, by the geometrical method which he employs in his philosophical masterpiece the Ethics. In Meaning in Spinoza's Method Aaron Garrett examines this method and suggests that its purpose, in Spinoza's view, was not just to present claims and propositions but also in some sense to change the readers and allow them to look at themselves and the world in a different way. His discussion draws not only on Spinoza's works but also on those of the philosophers who influenced Spinoza most strongly, including Hobbes, Descartes, Maimonides, and Gersonides. This original and controversial book will be of interest to historians of philosophy and to anyone interested in the relation between form and content in philosophical works."--Jacket.

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