Spinoza's Philosophy of Ratio

ISBN-13: 9781474420433 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 248 str.

Beth Lord

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These essays explore the surprisingly varied dimensions of this unacknowledged keystone of Spinoza's thought. They take you from Spinoza's geometrical diagrams to his concepts of mind, body, the emotions and the cosmos.

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Contents; Acknowledgements; Author biographies; Abbreviations of Spinoza’s works; List of figures; Introduction, Beth Lord; 1. Spinoza’s Ontology Geometrically Illustrated: A Reading of Ethics IIP8SM, Valtteri Viljanen; 2. Reason and Body in Spinoza’s Metaphysics, Michael LeBuffe; 3. Ratio and Activity: Spinoza's Biologizing of the Mind in an Aristotelian Key, Heidi M. Ravven; 4. Harmony in Spinoza and His Critics, Timothy Yenter; 5. Ratio as the basis of Spinoza’s concept of equality, Beth Lord; 6. Proportion as a barometer of the affective life in Spinoza, Simon B. Duffy; 7. Spinoza, Heterarchical Ontology and Affective Architecture, Gökhan Kodalak; 8. Dissimilarity: Spinoza's ethical ratios and housing welfare, Peg Rawes; 9. The greater part: How intuition forms better worlds, Stefan White; 10. Slownesses and Speeds, Latitudes and Longitudes: In the Vicinity of Beatitude, Hélène Frichot; 11. The Eyes of the Mind: Proportion in Spinoza, Swift, Ibn Tufayl, Anthony Uhlmann; Bibliography.