Ik
had dit bericht al in het blog van 6 december 2018 over Lin. Maar inmiddels geeft de
uitgever de cover en een nieuwe datum van verschijnen van
Martin Lin, Being
and Reason: an essay on Spinoza's metaphysics. Bij Oxford University Press, 21 May 2019 (Estimated) – 224 pages
In Being and Reason, Martin Lin offers a new interpretation of
Spinoza's core metaphysical doctrines with attention to how and why, in
Spinoza, metaphysical notions are entangled with cognitive, logical, and
epistemic ones. For example, according to Spinoza, a substance is that which can
be conceived through itself and a mode is that which is conceived through
another. Thus, metaphysical notions, substance and mode, are defined through a
notion that is either cognitive or logical, being conceived through. What are
we to make of the intimate connections that Spinoza sees between metaphysical,
cognitive, logical, and epistemic notions? Or between being and reason? Lin
argues against idealist readings according to which the metaphysical is
reducible to or grounded in something epistemic, logical, or psychological. He
maintains that Spinoza sees the order of being and the order of reason as two
independent structures that mirror one another. In the course of making this
argument, he develops new interpretations of Spinoza's notions of attribute and
mode, and of Spinoza's claim that all things strive for self-preservation. Lin
also argues against prominent idealist readings of Spinoza according to which
the Principle of Sufficient Reason is absolutely unrestricted for Spinoza and
is the key to his system. He contends, rather, that Spinoza's metaphysical
rationalism is a diverse phenomenon and that the Principle of Sufficient Reason
is limited to claims about existence and nonexistence which are applied only
once by Spinoza to the case of the necessary existence of God.
En verder:
• Gives a detailed a systematic reconstruction of many of the central issues in Spinoza's metaphysics
• Defends a realist interpretation of Spinoza's metaphysics
• Goes against many recent idealist readings and corrects misapprehensions about the content of Spinoza's philosophy
• Gives a detailed a systematic reconstruction of many of the central issues in Spinoza's metaphysics
• Defends a realist interpretation of Spinoza's metaphysics
• Goes against many recent idealist readings and corrects misapprehensions about the content of Spinoza's philosophy
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