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Spinoza's geometry of power /
A compelling view of existence as a realization of power, possessing an internal structure akin to that of geometrical objects.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; SPINOZA'S GEOMETRY OF POWER; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Spinoza's works; Collected works; The Ethics; Other works by Spinoza; Other sources; Introduction; Chapter 1: Spinoza on being; EARLY SPINOZA ON THE BEING OF ESSENCES; ETERNITY AND TEMPORALITY IN THE ETHICS; CHAPTER 2: Causation and geometry; THE FINAL, THE MATERIAL, AND THE EFFICIENT CAUSE; SUÁREZ ON THE FORMAL CAUSE AND EMANATION; SPINOZA AND THE FORMAL CAUSE IN GEOMETRY; SPINOZA AND THE ESSENTIALIST MODEL OF CAUSATION; CHAPTER 3: Power, existence, activity.
- POWER IN LATE SCHOLASTIC AND CARTESIAN METAPHYSICSPOWER REHABILITATED BY SPINOZA; THE POWERFUL EXISTENCE OF SUBSTANCES, MODES, AND ATTRIBUTES; POWER OF ACTING; CHAPTER 4: The derivation of the conatus doctrine; STRIVING IN THE PHILOSOPHICAL TRADITION AND IN SPINOZA'S SYSTEM; SOME INFLUENTIAL INTERPRETATIONS OF THE CONATUS ARGUMENT; THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF SELF-DESTRUCTION; POWER AND EXPRESSION; THE ARGUMENT RECONSTRUCTED; CHAPTER 5: The meaning of the conatus doctrine; THE INERTIAL READING; THE TELEOLOGICAL READING; CONATUS AS THE PRINCIPLE OF PERFECT ESSENCE REALIZATION.
- HUMAN AGENCY RECONCEIVEDESSENTIALISM AND TELEOLOGY; CHAPTER 6: Geometrical dynamics of individuality; POWER AND INDIVIDUATION; GEOMETRY OF THE PASSIONS; PHYSICAL INDIVIDUALITY AND THE FIELD METAPHYSIC; CONATUS, THOUGHT, AND REASON; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.