ISBN:
9780367362249
,
9781032176840
Language:
English
Pages:
x, 255 Seiten
Year of publication:
2020
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in seventeenth-century philosophy 23
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in seventeenth century philosophy
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Freedom, action, and motivation in spinoza's ethics
DDC:
199/.492
Keywords:
Spinoza, Benedictus de
;
Ethics
;
Liberty
;
Act (Philosophy)
;
Motivation (Psychology)
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Spinoza, Benedictus de 1632-1677 Ethica ordine geometrico demonstrata
Abstract:
"The present volume posits the themes of freedom, action, and motivation as the central principles that drive Spinoza's Ethics from its first part to its last. It assembles essays by internationally leading scholars who provide different, sometimes opposing interpretations of these fundamental themes as they operate across the five parts of the Ethics and within its manifold domains. The diversity of issues, approaches, and perspectives within this volume, along with the chapters' common focus, open up new ways of understanding not only some of the key concepts and main objectives in the Ethics but also the threads unifying the entire work. The sequence of essays in the book broadly follows the order of the Ethics, providing up-to-date perspectives of Spinoza's views on freedom, action, and motivation in their ontological, cognitive, physical, affective, and ethical facets. This enables readers to engage with a variety of new interpretations of these key themes of the Ethics and to reconsider their consequences both for other related issues in the Ethics and for the relevance of the Ethics to contemporary trends in philosophy of action and motivation. The essays will contribute to the growing interest in Spinoza's Ethics and spark further discussion and debate within and outside the vast body of scholarship on this important work. Freedom, Action, and Motivation in Spinoza's Ethics will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working on Spinoza and early modern philosophy"--
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