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Examples of "spinoza"
Spinoza
may refer to the philosopher Baruch
Spinoza
, or several things named after him:
Benedictus is a Latin name with similar meaning; cf. Baruch
Spinoza
or Benedictus de
Spinoza
.
Spinoza
(1951; second edition 1962; third edition 1987) is a book about Baruch
Spinoza
by the English philosopher Stuart Hampshire. The work includes a foreword by philosopher A. J. Ayer, while a new introduction was added to the 1987 edition. "
Spinoza
" has become a classic work about
Spinoza
and has received praise from philosophers. In 2005, "
Spinoza
", along with Hampshire's other writings on the philosopher, was incorporated into a single volume, published as "
Spinoza
and Spinozism".
In 1634, apparently to clear some debts, he became involved commercially with Michael
Spinoza
(father of philosopher Baruch
Spinoza
).
Spinoza
engaged in correspondence from December 1664 to June 1665 with Willem van Blijenbergh, an amateur Calvinist theologian, who questioned
Spinoza
on the definition of evil. Later in 1665,
Spinoza
notified Oldenburg that he had started to work on a new book, the "Theologico-Political Treatise", published in 1670. Leibniz disagreed harshly with
Spinoza
in his own manuscript "Refutation of
Spinoza
," but he is also known to have met with
Spinoza
on at least one occasion (as mentioned above), and his own work bears some striking resemblances to specific important parts of Spinoza's philosophy (see: Monadology).
Spinoza
thinks that there are an "infinite" number of attributes, but there are two attributes for which
Spinoza
thinks we can have knowledge. Namely, "thought" and "extension".
“Absolute and Relative Senses of Liberum and Libertas in
Spinoza
” in
Spinoza
nel 350 Anniversario della Nascita (ed. Emilia Giancotti), Naples: Bibliopolis, 1985, 259-280.
Spinoza
thinks that there are an "infinite" number of attributes, but there are two attributes for which
Spinoza
thinks we can have knowledge. Namely, "thought" and "extension".
“Pierre Macherey’s Hegel ou
Spinoza
” in
Spinoza
: Issues and Directions (ed. Edwin Curley and Pierre-François Moreau), Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1990, 373-80.
Blessedness (or salvation or freedom),
Spinoza
thinks,
Spinoza
also corresponded with Peter Serrarius, a radical Protestant and millennarian merchant. Serrarius was a patron to
Spinoza
after
Spinoza
left the Jewish community, and even had letters sent and received for the philosopher to and from third parties.
Spinoza
and Serrarius maintained their relationship until Serrarius' death in 1669. By the beginning of the 1660s, Spinoza's name became more widely known, and eventually Gottfried Leibniz and Henry Oldenburg paid him visits, as stated in Matthew Stewart's "The Courtier and the Heretic".
Spinoza
corresponded with Oldenburg for the rest of his short life.
Spinoza
discusses the three kinds of knowledge in E2P40s2.
In 1929-1935 Hallett - British Secretary of the Societas
Spinoza
.
Spinoza
has had influence beyond the confines of philosophy.
In 1986, Yovel founded the Jerusalem
Spinoza
Institute with a dual intention – to foster
Spinoza
scholarship, and to promote public education around ideas associated with
Spinoza
(such as democracy, secularism, and tolerance) both as all- European thinker and as an emblematic figure of Jewish modernity).
Spinoza
argues that the second kind of knowledge arises:
Historically, Baruch
Spinoza
was a subscriber to this belief.
Spinoza
gives the following definitions of "Good", and "Evil":
Maimon is said to have Influenced Hegel’s writing on
Spinoza
. "[T]here seems to be a striking similarity between Maimon’s discussion of
Spinoza
in the "Lebensgeschichte" (Maimon's autobiography) and Hegel’s discussion of
Spinoza
in the "Lectures in the History of Philosophy"."
In 2003, Dijkgraaf was awarded the
Spinoza
Prize. In doing so he became the first recipient of the award whose advisor also was a recipient ('t Hooft received the first
Spinoza
Prize in 1995). He used part of his
Spinoza
Prize grant to set up a website targeted at children and promoting science: Proefjes.nl.