Meaning in Spinoza's Method
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- Author: Aaron V. Garrett, Boston University
- Date Published: August 2003
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- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521826112
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Readers of Spinoza's philosophy have often been discouraged, as well as fascinated, by the geometrical method which he employs in his masterpiece Ethics. Aaron Garrett examines this method and suggests that Spinoza intended not only to make claims and propositions but also to transform readers by enabling them to view themselves and the world in a different way. This original and controversial book will be of interest to historians of philosophy.
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'… there are some very illuminating aspects of this book.' British Journal for the History of Philosophy
See more reviews'In his book, Meaning in Spinoza's Method, Aaron Garrett's guiding aim is to investigate the connections between method and content in Spinoza's philosophy, and the results are stimulating and often surprising. … I would say that this book is the most sustained and historically illuminating treatment of Spinoza's method of which I am aware. The range and depth of Garrett's survey of philosophers who influenced or may have influenced Spinoza on method is very impressive. … [an] illuminating and fertile account of Spinoza's method.' Mind
'For many readers, the most admirable thing about this admirable book will be its successful depiction of Spinozism as a brilliant synthesis of competing pressures in early modern thought.' Journal of the History of Philosophy
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- Date Published: August 2003
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521826112
- length: 254 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 17 mm
- weight: 0.54kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Texts and editions
Introduction
1. A worm in the blood: some central themes in Spinoza's Ethics
2. A few further basic concepts
3. Emendative therapy and the Tractatus de Intellectus Emendatione
4. Method: analysis and synthesis
5. Maimonides and Gersonides
6. Definitions in Spinoza's Ethics: where they come from and what they are for
7. The third kind of knowledge and 'our' eternity
Bibliography
Index of passages referred to and cited
General index.
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