donderdag 17 oktober 2019

#Spinoza & Spinozistic Life Form

Daar Ursula Renz & Barnaby Hutchins eerder  deze maand zouden spreken bij de Spinoza Circle of London over "Spinoza on Human Subjectivity and the Notion of God’s Intellect" [Cf. & cf.], ontdekte ik haar project "Spinozistic Life Form" aan het Institute of Philosophy / Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt - wat ik hier graag doorgeef.

De intrigerende introductie-tekst van hun inleiding aan de Spinoza Circle of London houd ik hier graag vast:
Spinoza’s Ethics is frequently interpreted, especially in recent scholarship, as maintaining that everything, including human subjects, is grounded in God or substance – that substance is the sole fundamental feature of reality. At the same time, the perspective of finite minds seems to play a non-trivial role in the constitution of reality. How can this (seeming) tension between these two positions be reconciled? In our paper, we argue for three claims: (1) both positions are necessary for Spinoza’s metaphysics, but neither is reducible to the other; (2) to account for both of them, given their mutual irreducibility, subjectivity itself must be comprehended as a function of finite beings; (3) the notion of infinite intellect plays a transcendental-philosophical role, and is not a metaphysical description of the nature of God. Through the elaboration of these three claims, we propose a new picture of Spinoza’s metaphysics, according to which human subjectivity is an integral, irreducible, and ineliminable – and thereby fundamental – feature of reality.

In de openingszin proef je nog de invloed van Hegel's kijk op Spinoza tot in onze tijd...
Extra intrigerend vind ik de derde claim: "the notion of infinite intellect plays a transcendental-philosophical role, and is not a metaphysical description of the nature of God.
Hopelijk wordt dit nog eens gepubliceerd.

1 opmerking:

  1. Ha Stan,

    Ik vermoed dat Hegel ook nog te vinden is in de poging tot synthese van de subjectiviteit en de metafysica. De derde claim doet echter vermoeden dat het subject de sterkere maatstaf zal blijken te zijn. We zullen zien of dat stuk ergens verschijnt.

    Groet,
    Howard

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