03468nam 2200685 450 991079810690332120230808192905.03-11-047925-73-11-047981-810.1515/9783110479812(CKB)3710000000656202(EBL)4517767(SSID)ssj0001663331(PQKBManifestationID)16449107(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001663331(PQKBWorkID)14954556(PQKB)10754841(MiAaPQ)EBC4517767(DE-B1597)466757(OCoLC)953566913(DE-B1597)9783110479812(Au-PeEL)EBL4517767(CaPaEBR)ebr11209855(CaONFJC)MIL919716(OCoLC)949883306(EXLCZ)99371000000065620220160523h20162016 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrSpinoza's dream on nature and meaning /David WeissmanBerlin, [Germany] ;Boston, [Massachusetts] :De Gruyter,2016.©20161 online resource (202 p.)Categories,2198-1868 ;Volume 7Description based upon print version of record.3-11-047792-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Acknowledgment -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Nature -- 2. Silent Conditions -- 3. Existence Proofs -- 4. Other Ontologies -- 5. Meaning, value, and truth -- 6. Practical Life -- 7. Mental functions -- 8. Last thoughts -- Bibliography -- Index Meaning (significance) and nature are this book’s principal topics. They seem an odd couple, like raisins and numbers, though they elide when meanings of a global sort—ideologies and religions, for example—promote ontologies that subordinate nature. Setting one against the other makes reality contentious. It signifies workmates and a coal face to miners, gluons to physicists, prayer and redemption to priests. Are there many realities, or many perspectives on one? The answer I prefer is the comprehensive naturalism anticipated by Aristotle and Spinoza: "natura naturans, natura naturata." Nature naturing is an array of mutually conditioning material processes in spacetime. Each structure or event—storm clouds forming, nature natured—is self-differentiating, self-stabilizing, and sometimes self-disassembling; each alters or transforms a pre-existing state of affairs. This surmise anticipated discoveries and analyses to which neither thinker had access, though physics and biology confirm their hypothesis beyond reasonable doubt. Hence the question this book considers: Is reality divided:nature vrs. lived experience? Or is experience, with all its meanings and values, the complex expression of natural processes?Categories ;Volume 7.Philosophy of natureMeaning (Philosophy)Aristotle.Natura Naturans.reality.significance.Philosophy of nature.Meaning (Philosophy)110Weissman David1542462MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910798106903321Spinoza's dream3848365UNINA