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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789548903321

Autore

Deveaux Sherry Lynn

Titolo

The role of God in Spinoza's metaphysics [[electronic resource] /] / Sherry Deveaux

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Continuum, c2007

ISBN

1-283-12296-0

9786613122964

1-4411-7209-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (155 p.)

Collana

Continuum studies in philosophy

Classificazione

08.31

Disciplina

199.492

Soggetti

God

Metaphysics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [118]-[138]) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1: THREE PROBLEMS; CHAPTER 2: THE ""GOD IS THE THING THAT HAS ATTRIBUTES AND MODES AS PROPERTIES"" INTERPRETATION; CHAPTER 3: THE ""GOD IS THE COLLECTION OF ATTRIBUTES"" INTERPRETATION; CHAPTER 4: THE ""GOD IS THE TOTALITY OF ATTRIBUTES"" INTERPRETATION; CHAPTER 5: BENEFITS AND DISADVANTAGES OF THE THREE INTERPRETATIONS; CHAPTER 6: ESSENCES AND TRUE IDEAS IN SPINOZA; CHAPTER 7: THE ESSENCE OF SPINOZA'S GOD; NOTES; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Baruch Spinoza began his studies in the Jewish community of seventeenth century Amsterdam by learning Hebrew and the Talmud, only to be excommunicated at the age of twenty-four for supposed heresy. Because of his radical transformation of the concept of God, he has been characterized, on the one hand, as an atheist, and on the other as the God-intoxicated man. This book is an exploration of what Spinoza understood God to be; how, for him, the infinite and eternal power of God is expressed; and how finite human beings can have a true idea of this greatest of all entities. Sherry Deveaux begins