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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.
This book presents a philosophy of science, based on
panenmentalism: an original modal metaphysics, which is realist
about individual pure (non-actual) possibilities and rejects the
notion of possible worlds. The book systematically constructs a new
and novel way of understanding and explaining scientific progress,
discoveries, and creativity. It demonstrates that a metaphysics of
individual pure possibilities is indispensable for explaining and
understanding mathematics and natural sciences. It examines the
nature of individual pure possibilities, actualities,
mind-dependent and mind-independent possibilities, as well as
mathematical entities. It discusses in detail the singularity of
each human being as a psychical possibility. It analyses striking
scientific discoveries, and illustrates by means of examples of the
usefulness and vitality of individual pure possibilities in the
sciences.
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.
This book presents a philosophy of science, based on
panenmentalism: an original modal metaphysics, which is realist
about individual pure (non-actual) possibilities and rejects the
notion of possible worlds. The book systematically constructs a new
and novel way of understanding and explaining scientific progress,
discoveries, and creativity. It demonstrates that a metaphysics of
individual pure possibilities is indispensable for explaining and
understanding mathematics and natural sciences. It examines the
nature of individual pure possibilities, actualities,
mind-dependent and mind-independent possibilities, as well as
mathematical entities. It discusses in detail the singularity of
each human being as a psychical possibility. It analyses striking
scientific discoveries, and illustrates by means of examples of the
usefulness and vitality of individual pure possibilities in the
sciences.
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.
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 relationship between the literary imagination, literary
possibilities, and actual reality poses a major philosophical
problem in the field of the metaphysics of literature. This
detailed analysis of some literary masterpieces, by Proust, Kafka,
Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Thomas Mann, Virginia Woolf, and William
Faulkner, demonstrates that actual reality actualizes or "imitates"
literary pure possibilities. As such, these masterpieces should be
treated not as romans a clef, but, instead, as paradigm-cases on
whose basis we grasp and understand actual reality.
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