The Explicability of Experience: Realism and Subjectivity in Spinoza's Theory of the Human Mind

by Ursula Renz

2021-01-07 00:47:12

This book reconstructs Spinoza''s theory of the human mind against the backdrop of the twofold notion that subjective experience is explainable and that its successful explanation is of ethical relevance, because it makes us wiser, freer, and happier... Read more
This book reconstructs Spinoza''s theory of the human mind against the backdrop of the twofold notion that subjective experience is explainable and that its successful explanation is of ethical relevance, because it makes us wiser, freer, and happier. Doing so, the book defends a realistrationalist interpretation of Spinoza''s approach which does not entail commitment to an ontological reduction of subjective experience to mere intelligibility. In contrast to a long-standing tradition of Hegelian reading of Spinoza''s Ethics, it thus defends the notion that the experience of finitesubjects is fully real. Less

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File size9.25 X 6.12 X 0.98 in
Print pages320
PublisherOxford University Press
Publication date August 15, 2018
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780199350162

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