Spinoza and the Case for Philosophy(English, Hardcover, Yakira Elhanan)

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Spinoza and the Case for Philosophy(English, Hardcover, Yakira Elhanan) is written by Yakira Elhanan and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 110706998X (ISBN 10) and 9781107069985 (ISBN 13).

This book analyzes three often-debated questions of Spinoza's legacy: was Spinoza a religious thinker? How should we understand Spinoza's mind-body doctrine? What meaning can be given to Spinoza's notions - such as salvation, beatitude, and freedom - which are seemingly incompatible with his determinism, his secularism, and his critique of religion. Through a close reading of often-overlooked sections from Spinoza's Ethics, Elhanan Yakira argues that these seemingly conflicting elements are indeed compatible, despite Spinoza's iconoclastic meanings. Yakira argues that Ethics is an attempt at providing a purely philosophical - as opposed to theological - foundation for the theory of value and normativity.