Spinoza's Thinking Substance and the Necessity of Modes

Hübner, Karolina

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“…It fits well with Spinozaʼs claim that the "order and connection" of causes is "one and the same" as that of "ideas" (E2p7); with his identification of "causes" and "reasons" (E1p11altd1); with his geometric models of causality, according to which things depend on God the way that a triangleʼs properties depend on its essence (e.g. E1p17s); and finally with his reliance on a single verb -to "follow [sequi]" -to describe both the dependence of propositions within his own arguments, and causal dependence within nature: it seems that things in Spinozaʼs nature causally "follow" from substance in the same way as propositions inferentially "follow" from one another in a demonstration.²³ Most logicising interpretations stop at simply asserting the existence of a correspondence or identity of causal relations and relations of entailment, without saying much about how precisely to understand this correspondence or identity, 20 On the relation between logic and psychology in Spinozaʼs philosophy see Bennett 1984, § 14, andHübner 2014. For the argument that the representative content of Spinozistic ideas cannot be causally efficacious, see Bennett 1984, § 51.5 21 Leibniz 1996, 1.1.…”

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On the Significance of Formal Causes in Spinoza’s Metaphysics

Hübner

2015

Archiv Für Geschichte Der Philosophie

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The paper argues for a formal-causal account of Spinoza's metaphysics. Its basic claim is that neither relations of ideas alone nor efficient causality -especially if interpreted "mechanistically" -articulate the basic sense of the Spinozistic 'cause'. Instead it is formal causality, as understood by Descartes and other 17 th -century mathematicians on the basis of Aristotleʼs Posterior Analytics, which fits best both with the textual evidence and with the more general conceptual constraints of Spinoza's metaphysics. Building on the work of Carraud and Viljanen, the paper develops a more precise concept of formal causality and a systematic formal-causal account of Spinoza's metaphysics. It gives this account footing in new arguments, shows its explanatory superiority to rival interpretations and connects it to other Spinozistic doctrines.

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On the Significance of Formal Causes in Spinoza’s Metaphysics

Hübner

2015

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“…Substance has "two more properties: it must be modifiable and think". [21] I. Melamed, criticizing the idealism of M. Rocca and the German idealists, focuses on the problem of infinite modes, which he considers essential for understanding some of the most important doctrines of Spinoza's metaphysics, such as the flow of modes from the essence of substance, necessity, the whole-part relation and the nature of infinity.…”

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Spinoza’s Concept of God: Modern Interpretations

Malla¹

2023

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Humanities (Philosophy of Being

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Spinoza devoted his philosophical system to clarifying the teachings of God. Spinoza is one of the most interested philosophers in the history of philosophy throughout the centuries. It is worth noting the study of the views of the German philosophers of the Enlightenment in the teachings of Spinoza: Goethe, Schelling, Fischer, Shevchenko, and Feuerbach. It is clear that one of the important issues in the history of philosophy that deserves mention in Spinoza is the doctrine of God, one of the most important and profound aspects of Spinoza's teachings. Spinoza developed other doctrines such as monism, materialism, free will, nature, and essence. Spinoza's teachings on God have theoretical, ideological, and methodological significance. Spinoza's interpretation of the concept of God is key to understanding his philosophy, is the primary, central category of the thinker's philosophy and is one of the most controversial concepts among Spinozists, also because it is associated with religious meanings. Spinoza's intellectual study includes the substance relating to the concept of God, in defining what Spinoza focuses on absolute eternity and infinity. Substance, consisting of an infinite number of attributes, each expressing an eternal and infinite essence, and the key to Spinoza's essence, as we shall see, is unity, that is, the unity of being between God and Nature. In the attached text, we will find that God is the doctrine of substance, nature and religious sense. Russian philosophy goes back in many ways to the traditions of German philosophy: Materialism to Feuerbach and Marxism to Hegel, Kant and Schelling, and we will see the philosophers' critique of materialism.

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The unity of substance and attribute in Spinoza

Driggers

2020

British Journal for the History of Philosophy

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Spinoza's Thinking Substance and the Necessity of Modes

Cited by 5 publications

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On the Significance of Formal Causes in Spinoza’s Metaphysics

On the Significance of Formal Causes in Spinoza’s Metaphysics

Spinoza’s Concept of God: Modern Interpretations

The unity of substance and attribute in Spinoza

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