Research Catalog

The philosophy of Spinoza; unfolding the latent processes of his reasoning.

Title: The philosophy of Spinoza; unfolding the latent processes of his reasoning.
Author: Wolfson, Harry Austryn, 1887-1974.
Publication: New York, Schocken Books [1969, ©1934]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Filter by

1 Item

Item details
Status	Vol/Date	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request for On-site Use Request Scan How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	vol.2	Text	Use in library	B3998 .W65 1969 vol.2	Off-site

Details

Description

2 volumes; 21 cm

Summary

Wolfson has tracked Spinoza to his lair in a work of scholarship and erudition hard to duplicate. The Philosophy of Spinoza is a commentary, frequently brilliant and revelatory, on every definition, axiom and proposition of the Ethics ... He argues his thesis with persuasion and wit ... and writes in a style that is a model of clarity. His is a work of first magnitude. (New Republic).

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Bibliography: v. 2, p. [355]-360.

Contents

Volume I -- Chapter I: Behind the geometrical method -- Chapter II: The geometrical method -- Chapter III: Definition of substance and mode -- Chapter IV: Unity of substance -- Chapter V: Simplicity of substance -- I. Simplicity and attributes -- II. Essence and existence -- III. Definition of the term "infinite" -- IV. Relation of attribute to substance -- Chapter VI: Proofs of the existence of God -- I. The ontological proof -- II. Spinoza's four proofs -- Chapter VII: extension and thought -- I. The framework of Spinoza's universe -- II. Properties, attributes, and modes -- Chapter VIII: Infinity of extension -- Chapter IX: The causality of God -- I. Materiality and causality of God -- II. God as free cause -- III. The meaning of immanent cause -- IV. God as conscious cause -- Chapter X: Duration, time, and eternity -- I. The story of duration -- II. Duration and time in Spinoza -- III. Eternity -- Chapter XI: Modes -- Chapter XII: Necessity and purposelessness -- I. Intellect, will, and power -- II. Final causes -- Volume II -- Chapter XIII: Body and mind -- I. God and man -- II. Extension and thought in God -- III. Body and mind in man -- IV. The nature of bodies -- Chapter XIV: The cognitive faculties -- I. Sensation -- II. Imagination and memory -- III. Consciousness and reason -- Chapter XV: Truth -- Chapter XVI: The three stages of knowledge -- Chapter XVII: Will -- Chapter XVIII: Emotions -- I. Actions and passions -- II. Conatus and primary passive emotions -- III. Derivative passive emotions -- IV. Active emotions -- Chapter XIX: Virtues -- I. Emotions and virtues -- II. Happiness and virtue -- III. Society and the state -- IV. Catalogue of virtues -- Chapter XX: Love, immortality, and blessedness -- I.A metaphysic for bilious souls -- II. Love and impersonality of God -- III. Immortality and the intellectual love of God -- IV. The religion of reason -- Chapter XXI: What is new in Spinoza?

LCCN

70083674

OCLC

ocm00045178
45178
SCSB-9514291

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library