Spinoza on Reason 1st Edition by Michael Lebuffe 9780190845803 0190845805
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In his work on metaphysics, Spinoza associates reasons with causes or explanations. He contends that there is a reason for whatever exists and whatever does not exist. In his account of the human mind, Spinoza makes reason a peculiarly powerful kind of idea and the only source of our knowledge of objects in experience. In his moral theory, Spinoza introduces dictates of reason, which are action-guiding prescriptions. In politics, Spinoza suggests that reason, with religion, motivates cooperation in society. Reason shapes Spinoza’s philosophy, and central debates about Spinoza-including his place in the history of philosophy and in the European Enlightenment-turn upon our understanding of these claims.Spinoza on Reason starts with striking claims in each of these areas, which Michael LeBuffe draws from Spinoza’s two great works, the Ethics and the Theological Political Treatise. The book takes each characterization of reason on its own terms, explaining the claims and their historical context. While acknowledging the striking variety of reason’s roles, LeBuffe emphasizes the extent to which these different doctrines build upon one another. The result is a rich understanding of the meaning and function of each claim and, in the book’s conclusion, an overview of the contribution of reason to the systematic coherence of Spinoza’s philosophy.
Spinoza on Reason 1st Table of contents:
1. Reason in the Metaphysics of Finite Individuals
1.1 Dualism, Idealism, or Materialism?
1.2 God and the Human Individual as Existents
1.3 Availability: An Objection to Della Rocca’s Idealist Interpretation
1.4 A Response: The Causal Nature of Any Finite Thing Is Like the Nature of God
1.5 Avicenna
1.6 Maimonides
1.7 Descartes
1.8 Reason and the Nature of Finite Things
1.9 Idealism and Reasons
1.10 The Causal Nature of the Human Individual in Spinoza
1.11 Theomorphism in Descartes and Leibniz
1.12 Generalization Arguments
1.13 Reason and the Question of Ideas
2. Reason as an Idea
2.1 Reason in Pseudo-Dionysius and Thomas Aquinas
2.2 Ideas of Reason as Knowledge Distinctive of Finite Minds
2.3 Causation and Perception
2.4 The Psychology of Perception: Power, Association, and Vacillation
2.5 Causation and Reason: The Idea of Something Common to Two Bodies
2.6 Common Properties, Common Notions, and What Follows from Them
2.7 The Psychology of Reason
2.8 Reason as a Kind of Knowledge
3. Practical Reason
3.1 Dictates of Reason in Aquinas and Hobbes
3.2 Curley and Rutherford on the Guidance of Reason
3.3 Self-Preservation and Understanding as Ends Commanded by Reason
3.4 The Second Kind of Knowledge and the Guidance of Reason
3.5 Motivation and the Guidance of Reason
3.6 Authority and the Guidance of Reason
3.7 Authority and Motivation Together
4. Reason and Miracles
4.1 The Noble Lie
4.2 A Fixed Plan
4.3 Inductive Generalization as a Fixed Plan
4.4 Imaginative Ideas of the Unique
4.5 God, Miracles, Devotion, and Obedience in Spinoza’s Account of Religion
4.6 The Doctrine of the Two Kingdoms
4.7 The Threat of Harmful Elitism
4.8 Reason and Religion in the Life of a Citizen
4.9 Reason as a Source of Practical Guidance and as a Motive
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