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Creation Emanation and Salvation :

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Creation Emanation and Salvation :

[Book]

a Spinozistic Study

by H.F. Hallett.

Dordrecht

Springer Netherlands

1981

(xi, 234 pages)

Prolegomena.- I. The Human Predicament and Metaphysical Method.- (i) Datum and Analogy.- (ii) Knowledge and Reality.- (iii) Transcendence and the Human Predicament.- a. Self-Transcendence.- b. Other-Transcendence.- (iv) Ontology and Analogy.- II. Causation and Agency.- (i) `Natural Cause' Incoherent.- (ii) Logical Ground Inefficient.- (iii) Spinozistic Cause: Agency and Conatus.- I. Nature.- I. `Natura Creatrix'.- (i) Potency, Agency, and Essence.- a. Durational Potency, Conatus, and Becoming.- b. Eternal Potency, Actio, and Being.- (ii) Spinozistic Substance and Attribute.- II. `Natura Creata'.- (i) Spinozistic Mode: Macrocosm and Microcosm.- (ii) The Individuation of the Macrocosm.- (iii) The Communitas of the Microcosms.- III. `Natura Emanata'.- (i) The `Bergsonian' Inchoation.- (ii) The Perceptual World.- a. Perceptual Time.- b. Perceptual Space.- c. Perceptual Quality or `Objective Content'.- d. The Conatus of Perceptual Things.- IV. `Natura Sophisticata'.- (i) The World of Science.- a. The Elimination of Action and Quality.- b. Cause and Probability.- (ii) `Alexandrian' Space-Time.- a. Space, Time, and Space-Time.- b. Space-Time and Quality.- (iii) Pointer-Readings - the Nemesis of Sophistication.- V. The Dialectic of Finite Creation.- (i) In Utero Naturae.- (ii) The Birth of the Finite Self.- (iii) Its Pilgrimage.- (iv) In Civitate Dei.- II. Morality.- VI. Man, Nature, and Morality.- (i) The Union of Mind and Body.- (ii) Automatum Spirituale>.- a. The Automatic Machine.- b. Automatum and Pseudautomatum.- (iii) Morality, Indeterminism, and Choice.- VII. Good, Evil, and Perfection.- (i) Desire and Good.- (ii) Natural Good and Moral Good.- (iii) Divine Creation and Evil.- (iv) The Latent Key to Spinoza's Doctrine.- VIII. Obligation and Emendation.- (i) The Morality of Obedience.- (ii) The Pseudo-Morality of Sanctions.- (iii) The Liberty of Enlightenment.- (iv) Self-Determination and Self-Legislation.- IX. The Preconditions of the Moral Life.- (i) The 'State of Nature' 179.- (ii) The Civic State.- a. The Civic State as Absolute.- b. The Limitations of the Civic State.- 1. What is Impossible.- 2. What is Unsafe.- 3. What is Inadvisable.- (iii) Civility and Morality.- X. Morality and Salvation.- (i) Exemplary and Mutual Ethics.- (ii) Morality as Pseudo-Communitas.- (iii) The Modes of Pseudo-Communitas.- (iv) The Incidence of Salvation.- Indexes.- (i) References to the Works of Spinoza.- (ii) Personal Names.- (iii) Subjects and Catchwords.

Philosophy (General)

by H.F. Hallett.

H F Hallett

[Book]

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