Spinoza and German Idealism
Yitzhak Y. Melamed
Language: English
Pages: 299
ISBN: B009P2F6XU
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
There can be little doubt that without Spinoza, German Idealism would have been just as impossible as it would have been without Kant. Yet the precise nature of Spinoza's influence on the German Idealists has hardly been studied in detail. This volume of essays by leading scholars sheds light on how the appropriation of Spinoza by Fichte, Schelling and Hegel grew out of the reception of his philosophy by, among others, Lessing, Mendelssohn, Jacobi, Herder, Goethe, Schleiermacher, Maimon and, of course, Kant. The volume thus not only illuminates the history of Spinoza's thought, but also initiates a genuine philosophical dialogue between the ideas of Spinoza and those of the German Idealists. The issues at stake - the value of humanity; the possibility and importance of self-negation; the nature and value of reason and imagination; human freedom; teleology; intuitive knowledge; the nature of God - remain of the highest philosophical importance today.
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And Thought having a certain nature and each constituting a kind. Spinoza seems here to equate nature, attribute, and kind. If Extension and Thought truly constitute distinct kinds or natures, and if each exists by its own sufficiency, then it is not clear how they can be mere illusions36 or external determinations (as the acosmist reading contends). Furthermore, the evidential force of Ep. 36 is 34 Ep. 36; my emphasis. 35 “[Y]our difficulty remains quite unresolved, namely as to why there.
Series. It must be conceived as immanent to it – either as the highest member of the series or as that series itself taken as a whole. This basic idea, that possibilities must be grounded in a being that actually exemplifies their fundamental properties, brings Kant to argue that all material possibility must be ultimately grounded in one ens realissimum – that being which serves the ground of all possibility by actually exemplifying the most fundamental material grounds of possibility. A crucial.
Concerning the extent of Schelling’s sympathies with Spinozist ideas, and their relation to his apparent Fichtean allegiances.3 I would like to thank Julie Klein, Michael Della Rocca, and Michael Forster for helpful questions and insightful remarks on the topic of this chapter. 1 All citations to Schelling’s work will be to HKA and SW. I will cite SW only where HKA is not available. In both cases, I will cite the division (Abteilung) number, followed by ‘/’ and then the volume and the page.
Conceived as extended, and one for the explanation of thinking things, i.e., for the explanation of things conceived as thinking. This separateness of 14 M ic h a e l De l l a Ro c c a the explanatory chains is the heart of Spinoza’s conceptual independence of the attributes. And it is certainly preserved even on the view that to be is to be intelligible. We can see why by expressing this view more perspicuously as the claim that to be extended is to be understood in terms of extension (and.
Figura non aliud, quam determinatio, et determinatio negatio est], figure can be nothing other than negation, as has been said.3 Arguably, what is most notable about this letter is the fate of a single subordinate clause that appears in the last sentence of this passage: et determinatio negatio est. That clause was to be adopted by Hegel and transformed into the slogan of his own dialectical method: Omnis determinatio est negatio (“Every determination is negation”).4 Of further significance is.