Antognazza, Maria Rosa:
Comments on Adams: 'The Priority of the Perfect'

In: Rationalism, Platonism and God  / Edited by Michael Ayers. - Oxford [e.a.] : Oxford Univ. Pr., 2007: 117-131. - (Proceedings of the British Academy ; 149)

Contains bibliography: IX, 133-137
Mention of Spinoza: 118, 121, 127-128, 130

Literature type: Articles
Language: English
Thematic areas: Metaphysics / ontology, Previous history (e.g. Descartes, Stoicism), Contemporaries and context
Subject: KV
Subject (individuals): Adams, Robert Merrihew ; Descartes, René ; Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm

Complete bibliographic evaluation: yes
Autopsy: yes
English commentary: Comments the preceding essay by Adams .
"Of the three authors discussed by Adams," (i.d. Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz) - "it seems that Spinoza best succeeded in providing a general 'top-down' theory, but the price to be paid is that his all-reality-grouding God 'is' all reality full stop. Although in itself a powerful theory, Spinoza's solution would never do for a 'top-down' theistic project of philosophical theology aiming at establishing transcendence and avoid pantheism." (p. 127-128).

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