Rawls, Christina:
Spinoza's ethiology : Recognizing dynamic transition between imagination, reason, and intuition

2015. - XIV, 425 pp. - Duchesne Univ., Diss. phil.

Contains bibliography: 407-425

Literature type: Monographs
Language: English
Thematic areas: Epistemology / methodology / philosophy of mind, Logic and mathematics, Theory of society, Philosophy of politics and law

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English commentary: "Seventeenth Century lens grinder and Dutch philosopher, Benedict de Spinoza, illuminates a rigorous and dynamic theory of knowledge and action in his major system the Ethics. What we learn by adequately learning Spinoza’s epistemology is that within it is a proto-physics of ideational force between the three kinds of knowledge expressed by the attribute of thought and, simultaneously, expressed as ratios of motion and rest, speed and slowness, intensity and transformation by the attribute of extension. Such dynamic processes or ways lead to one’s capacity for increased rational thought and action, increased uses of creativity, and the enhanced ability to join with others in powerfully effective, affirmative ways. This is Spinoza’s proto-physics of force" (from the abstract).URL: http://BASE

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