Ayers, Michael:
Introduction

In: Rationalism, Platonism and God  / Edited by Michael Ayers. - Oxford [e.a.] : Oxford Univ. Pr., 2007: 1-14. - (Proceedings of the British Academy ; 149)

Contains bibliography: IX, 133-137
Mention of Spinoza: 7-10, 11, 13

Literature type: Articles
Language: English
Thematic areas: Metaphysics / ontology, Previous history (e.g. Descartes, Stoicism), Contemporaries and context
Subject: CG
Subject (individuals): Descartes, René; Hobbes, Thomas; Kabbala; Plotin; Neoplatonismus/Neoplatonism

Complete bibliographic evaluation: yes
Autopsy: yes
English commentary: "There are at least three plausible, apparently different, ways of reading Spinoza" - in the context of (Medieval) Jewish philosophy, esp. Maimonides; in the context of "his contemporaries, Descartes and Hobbes", and "as the philosopher who disenchants the Platonist's world by naturalizing God, including God's epistemological role as the giver of light." (p. 8). One or the other is at the centre of the contributions in the volume.

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