Op het blog van 6 september 2017, waarin ik meldde dat naar
verwachting 30 november een nieuw boek van Michael LeBuffe zou verschijnen
Michael LeBuffe,
Spinoza on Reason. Oxford University Press, 2018 [2017] - 256 pp.
heeft
de auteur gisterenavond laten weten: “I am reading! Thanks for noting my book.
Best, Mike”.
Daar blogspot
geen ‘laatste reacties’ laat zien, vind ik het wel aardig dit te melden. Bij de
uitgever is te zien dat het boek op 2 november verschenen is. Bij
bookdepository blijkt de prijs omlaag gebracht naar €51,82
De uitgever schrijft:
De uitgever schrijft:
In his work on metaphysics, Spinoza associates reasons
with causes or explanations. He contends that there is a reason for whatever
exists and whatever does not exist. In his account of the human mind, Spinoza
makes reason a peculiarly powerful kind of idea and the only source of our
knowledge of objects in experience. In his moral theory, Spinoza introduces
dictates of reason, which are action-guiding prescriptions. In politics,
Spinoza suggests that reason, with religion, motivates cooperation in society.
Reason shapes Spinoza's philosophy, and central debates about Spinoza-including
his place in the history of philosophy and in the European Enlightenment-turn
upon our understanding of these claims. Spinoza on Reason starts with striking
claims in each of these areas, which Michael LeBuffe draws from Spinoza's two
great works, the Ethics and the Theological Political Treatise. The book
takes each characterization of reason on its own terms, explaining the claims
and their historical context. While acknowledging the striking variety of
reason's roles, LeBuffe emphasizes the extent to which these different
doctrines build upon one another. The result is a rich understanding of the
meaning and function of each claim and, in the book's conclusion, an overview
of the contribution of reason to the systematic coherence of Spinoza's
philosophy
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