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Maimonides and Spinoza : Their Conflicting Views of Human Nature /

Until the last century, it was generally agreed that Maimonides was a great defender of Judaism, and Spinoza-as an Enlightenment advocate for secularization-among its key opponents. However, a new scholarly consensus has recently emerged that the teachings of the two philosophers were in fact much c...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Parens, Joshua (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2012]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • One. Desire (Shahwa) and Spiritedness (Ghadab) vs. Conatus
  • Two. Veneration vs. Equality
  • Three. Forms vs. Laws of Nature
  • Four. Freedom vs. Determinism
  • Five. Teleology vs. Imagined Ideal
  • Six. Prudence vs. Imagination
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix: Richard Kennington's Spinoza and Esotericism in Spinoza's Thought
  • Index