A Rose Armed with Thorns: Spinoza’s Philosophy Under a Novel Lens

A Rose Armed with Thorns: Spinoza’s Philosophy Under a Novel Lens
Author: Amihud Gilead
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2020-08-10
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3030548104

This book presents a systemic analysis of Spinoza’s philosophy and challenges the traditional views. It deals with Spinoza’s concepts of substance, truth conditions, attributes, and the first, second, and supreme grades of knowledge. Based upon an analysis of the relevant details in all of Spinoza’s philosophical works, the book reveals many important points, including the following: Spinoza’s system is not, nor is meant to be, a foundational-deductive system but was meant to be a coherent system of a network model. Spinoza’s reality is not made in the image of a mathematical model. Imaginatio, the first grade of knowledge, and ratio, the second grade, are parts or properties of the supreme grade of knowledge, scientia intuitiva, which is their essence. Finite beings, especially humans, are necessary and eternal (unless they are mistakenly perceived by imaginatio) whereas time, place, and death are simply “entities of imagination.” The salvation, happiness, and blessedness that Spinoza’s Ethics offers us, are active and depend only upon us. Concluding a careful examination and interpretation, the book suggests additional novel viewpoints in interpreting Spinoza’s philosophical psychology and political philosophy.

Restless Reason and Other Variations on Kantian Themes

Restless Reason and Other Variations on Kantian Themes
Author: Amihud Gilead
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2021-11-23
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3030841979

This book, combining integratively-revised previously-published papers with entirely new chapters, challenges and treats some major problems in Kant’s philosophy not by means of new interpretations but by suggesting some variations on Kantian themes. Such variations are, in fact, reconstructions made according to Kantian ideas and principles and yet cannot be extracted as such directly from his writings. The book also analyses Kant's philosophy from a new metaphysical angle, based on the original metaphysics of the author, called panenmentalism. It reconstructs some missing links in Kant's philosophy, such as the idea of teleological time, which is vital for Kant's moral theory. Although these variations cannot be found literally in Kant’s works, they can be legitimately explicated, developed, and implied from them. Such is the case because these variations are strictly compatible with the details of the texts and the texts as wholes, and because they are systematically integrated. Their coherence supports their validation. The target audiences are graduate and PhD students as well as specialist researchers of Kant's philosophy.

The Sense of Beauty

The Sense of Beauty
Author: George Santayana
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 200
Release: 1955-01-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780486202389

The great philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist masterfully offers his fascinating outline of Aesthetics Theory. Drawing on the art, literature, and social sciences involved, Santayana discusses the nature of beauty, form, and expression.

The Logic of Expression

The Logic of Expression
Author: Simon Duffy
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2016-12-05
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1351886428

Engaging with the challenging and controversial reading of Spinoza presented by Gilles Deleuze in Expressionism in Philosophy (1968), this book focuses on Deleuze's redeployment of Spinozist concepts within the context of his own philosophical project of constructing a philosophy of difference as an alternative to the Hegelian dialectical philosophy. Duffy demonstrates that a thorough understanding of Deleuze's Spinozism is necessary in order to fully engage with Deleuze's philosophy of difference.

The Phantom Image

The Phantom Image
Author: Patrick R. Crowley
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2019-12-10
Genre: Art
ISBN: 022664829X

Drawing from a rich corpus of art works, including sarcophagi, tomb paintings, and floor mosaics, Patrick R. Crowley investigates how something as insubstantial as a ghost could be made visible through the material grit of stone and paint. In this fresh and wide-ranging study, he uses the figure of the ghost to offer a new understanding of the status of the image in Roman art and visual culture. Tracing the shifting practices and debates in antiquity about the nature of vision and representation, Crowley shows how images of ghosts make visible structures of beholding and strategies of depiction. Yet the figure of the ghost simultaneously contributes to a broader conceptual history that accounts for how modalities of belief emerged and developed in antiquity. Neither illustrations of ancient beliefs in ghosts nor depictions of afterlife, these images show us something about the visual event of seeing itself. The Phantom Image offers essential insight into ancient art, visual culture, and the history of the image.

The Letters of George Santayana

The Letters of George Santayana
Author: George Santayana
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 668
Release: 2001
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780262194662

The second of eight books of the correspondence of George Santayana.

The Metaphysics Of The Love Of The Sexes

The Metaphysics Of The Love Of The Sexes
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
Publisher: FV Éditions
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2013-09-28
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 236668665X

Is Love an Illusion ? What is the relationship between Love and Sexual Impulse ? Schopenhauer gives us a new way of thinking about relationships between men and women.

Platonism at the Origins of Modernity

Platonism at the Origins of Modernity
Author: Douglas Hedley
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2007-12-22
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1402064071

This collection of essays offers an overview of the range and breadth of Platonic philosophy in the early modern period. It examines philosophers of Platonic tradition, such as Cusanus, Ficino, and Cudworth. The book also addresses the impact of Platonism on major philosophers of the period, especially Descartes, Leibniz, Locke, Shaftesbury and Berkeley.