Editors’ Introduction
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Editors’ Introduction
Original language description
In this introduction we provide an overview of the main themes of Peter Winch's lectures on Spinoza. We concentrate on how Winch connects Spinoza's conception of judgement to both his critique of Cartesian metaphysics, and also his distinctive account of ethics. For Winch's Spinoza, assertion is an activity undertaken by a particular human being working within a certain context, and this in turn entails that within each assertion there is some degree of truth. By developing a theory of falsehood and negation based on this insight, Spinoza shows how, starting from any particular assertion, we can in principle attain a clear view of all things sub specie aeternitatis, By combining this with his doctrine of strict determinism, Winch's Spinoza advocates a conception of the world on which blessedness is to be attained through a progressive refinement of the understanding and on which our ordinary categories of ethical assessment are themselves the product of confused ideas. We argue that Winch therefore presents an interpretation of Spinoza which is both original and important; original in its foregrounding philosophical elements of language, such as assertion and negation, and important in presenting an internally coherent and unifying interpretation of Spinoza's Ethics, one which reveals the connection between its metaphysical and its ethical aspects.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60302 - Ethics (except ethics related to specific subfields)
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/EF15_003%2F0000425" target="_blank" >EF15_003/0000425: Centre for Ethics</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
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Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Book/collection name
Spinoza on Ethics and Understanding
ISBN
978-1-78527-543-2
Number of pages of the result
15
Pages from-to
"XI "-" XXV"
Number of pages of the book
188
Publisher name
Anthem Press
Place of publication
Londýn
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