Met
deze intrigerende kop attendeer ik in dit blog op het feit dat online ’t PDF te
vinden is van
A Companion to Philosophy of Religion. Second Edition. Edited by Charles Taliaferro, Paul
Draper, and Philip L. Quinn. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2010 – [PDF]
Enige
malen komt ook Spinoza en Spinozisme in dat werk voorbij. Zo treffen we in hoofdstuk
43 van WILLIAM L. ROWE "Cosmological Arguments", deze zin aan waaruit ik
de kop destilleerde:
One
objection to PSR is that it cannot avoid the dark night of Spinozism, a night
in which all facts appear to be necessary.
Eerder
in Chapter 5 Judaism by Lenn E.
Goodman [die met Heidy Ravven redigeerde Jewish
Themes in Spinoza ’ s Philosophy,2002] treffen we deze passage aan bij de vraag of Spinoza tot de joodse filosofie gerekend dient te worden:
Spinoza
is a special case
In every period there are certain Jewish thinkers, or thinkers of Jewish origin, whose work cannot be classed as a contribution to Jewish philosophy. One thinks of those who succumbed to conversionary pressures in the medieval or the modern age and of those who internalized the anti - Jewish hostilities they felt. More broadly, certain major thinkers whose ideas are inspired by Jewish sources are not participants in the conversation of Jewish philosophy. Marx and Freud must be numbered among these. They paid a price for their cosmopolitanism, in free or forced alienation from their Jewish roots when they entered the mainstream of Western culture. Spinoza is a special case. His philosophy is deeply immersed in the great problematics of the Western tradition and in the arguments that Jewish philosophers used to grapple with those problematics. What makes it hard to count Spinoza as a contributor to Jewish philosophy is not that he did not confi ne himself to a philosophy of Judaism – for no major Jewish philosopher did that – but that the circumstances of his life and epoch turned him decisively away from the methods of accommodation and critical appropriation that other Jewish philosophers found. The result was a rupture that led to greater radicalism – both creativity and hostility – than is found in those who were able, or enabled, to keep faith with the generations of their Jewish predecessors and contemporaries. [p. 56]
In every period there are certain Jewish thinkers, or thinkers of Jewish origin, whose work cannot be classed as a contribution to Jewish philosophy. One thinks of those who succumbed to conversionary pressures in the medieval or the modern age and of those who internalized the anti - Jewish hostilities they felt. More broadly, certain major thinkers whose ideas are inspired by Jewish sources are not participants in the conversation of Jewish philosophy. Marx and Freud must be numbered among these. They paid a price for their cosmopolitanism, in free or forced alienation from their Jewish roots when they entered the mainstream of Western culture. Spinoza is a special case. His philosophy is deeply immersed in the great problematics of the Western tradition and in the arguments that Jewish philosophers used to grapple with those problematics. What makes it hard to count Spinoza as a contributor to Jewish philosophy is not that he did not confi ne himself to a philosophy of Judaism – for no major Jewish philosopher did that – but that the circumstances of his life and epoch turned him decisively away from the methods of accommodation and critical appropriation that other Jewish philosophers found. The result was a rupture that led to greater radicalism – both creativity and hostility – than is found in those who were able, or enabled, to keep faith with the generations of their Jewish predecessors and contemporaries. [p. 56]
Kortom, het kan nuttig zijn te weten dat dit boek daar te downloaden staat. Er staan aparte hoofdstukken over o.a. 't Hindoeïsme, Boeddhisme, Confucianisme etc.
Vervolgens kan dan nuttig zijn kennis te nemen van
Steven M. Emmanuel (Ed.), A Companion to Buddhist Philosophy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2013, waarvan eveneens 't PDF te vinden is... van the most comprehensive single volume on the subject available; it offers the very latest scholarship to create a wide-ranging survey of the most important ideas, problems, and debates in the history of Buddhist philosophy
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Een enkele maal is er ook iets over een vergelijking met Spinoza in te vinden.
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