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Free Download Gil Morejón, "The Unconscious of Thought in Leibniz, Spinoza, and Hume "
English | ISBN: 1399504800 | 2022 | 216 pages | EPUB | 465 KB
Three early modern philosophers – Spinoza, Leibniz and Hume – understood that minds necessarily involve ideas and patterns of thinking that are not conscious. Morejon shows that in this way they sharply distinguish themselves from other major early modern thinkers whose conceptions of the mind tended to identify thinking with consciousness, such as Descartes, Malebranche and Locke. This conception of the thinking mind as conscious remains popular even today. By contrast, Leibniz, Spinoza and Hume argue instead that thought is not, as such, a matter of consciousness.

Free Download Spinoza and Dutch Cartesianism By Alexander X. Douglas
2015 | 192 Pages | ISBN: 0198732503 | PDF | 4 MB
Alexander X. Douglas offers a new understanding of Spinoza’s philosophy by situating it in its immediate historical context. He defends a thesis about Spinoza’s philosophical motivations and then bases an interpretation of his major works upon it. The thesis is that much of Spinoza’s philosophy was conceived with the express purpose of rebutting a claim about the limitations of philosophy made by some of his contemporaries. They held that philosophy is intrinsically incapable of revealing anything of any relevance to theology, or in fact to any study of direct practical relevance to human life. Spinoza did not. He believed that philosophy reveals the true nature of God, and that God is nothing like what the majority of theologians, or indeed of religious believers in general, think he is. The practical implications of this change in the concept of God were profound and radical. As Douglas shows, many of Spinoza’s theories were directed towards showing how the separation his opponents endeavoured to maintain between philosophical and non-philosophical (particularly theological) thought was logically untenable.

Free Download Laurent Bove, "Affirmation and Resistance in Spinoza: The Strategy of the Conatus "
English | ISBN: 1474430570 | 2023 | 296 pages | PDF | 17 MB
Offers a powerful and influential interpretation of Spinoza’s conatus – the essential striving that defines each of us – as fundamentally strategic.

Free Download Matthew Stewart, Graham Rowat (Narrator), "The Courtier and the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza, and the Fate of God in the Modern World"
English | ASIN: B0CTJ2M53H | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~13:03:00 | 370 MB
Once upon a time, philosophy was a dangerous business-and for no one more so than for Baruch Spinoza, the seventeenth-century philosopher vilified by theologians and political authorities everywhere as "the atheist Jew." As his inflammatory manuscripts circulated underground, Spinoza lived a humble existence in The Hague, grinding optical lenses to make ends meet. Meanwhile, in the glittering salons of Paris, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was climbing the ladder of courtly success. In between trips to the opera and groundbreaking work in mathematics, philosophy, and jurisprudence, he took every opportunity to denounce Spinoza, relishing his self-appointed role as "God’s attorney."
In this exquisitely written philosophical romance of attraction and repulsion, greed and virtue, religion and heresy, Matthew Stewart gives narrative form to an epic contest of ideas that shook the seventeenth century-and continues today.

Free Download Spinoza and Other Heretics, Volume 2: The Adventures of Immanence
by Yirmiyahu Yovel
English | 2021 | ASIN: B09C2STPZ9 | 342 Pages | ePUB | 0.56 MB

Free Download Benjamin Norris, "Schelling and Spinoza: Realism, Idealism, and the Absolute"
English | ISBN: 1438489536 | 2022 | 295 pages | EPUB | 567 KB
Presents a novel interpretation of Schelling’s philosophy by way of his reading and critique of Spinoza.

Free Download Spinoza’s Theologico-Political Treatise: Exploring ‘The Will of God’ By Theo Verbeek
2003 | 212 Pages | ISBN: 0754604934 | PDF | 5 MB
This book presents the first accessible analysis of Spinoza’s Tractatus Theologico-politicus, situating the work in the context of Spinoza’s general philosophy and its 17th-century historical background. According to Spinoza it is impossible for a being to be infinitely perfect and to have a legislative will. This idea, demonstrated in the Ethics, is presupposed and further elaborated in the Tractatus Theologico-politicus. It implies not only that on the level of truth all revealed religion is false, but also that all authority is of human origin and that all obedience is rooted in a political structure. The consequences for authority as it is used in a religious context are explored: the authority of Scripture, the authority of particular interpretations of Scripture, and the authority of the Church. Verbeek also explores the work of two other philosophers of the period – Hobbes and Descartes – to highlight certain peculiarities of Spinoza’s position, and to show the contrasts between their theories.

Free Download Spinoza and Law By Andre Santos Campos
2015 | 442 Pages | ISBN: 1472435966 | PDF | 30 MB
This volume collects some of the best writings on Spinoza’s philosophy of law and includes a critical examination of Spinoza’s theory of the types of law, his natural law theory, as well as the modern reformulation of his approach to the nature of laws and to natural rights. This collection of essays (some of which are published in the English language for the very first time) shows how Spinoza was able to deliver a revolutionary idea of natural law that breaks away from the traditions of natural law and of legal positivism. The bulk of Spinoza’s references to law derive from his metaphysical and political texts, but they have sufficient depth in order to form a groundbreaking theory of law that has been somewhat neglected by modern jurisprudence. The volume also features an introduction which places Spinoza’s writings in the context of modern jurisprudence as well as an extensive bibliography. It is suited to the needs of jurisprudence scholars, teachers and students and is an essential resource for all law libraries; it is also essential to anybody who wishes to engage in Spinoza studies nowadays, whose practical philosophy has received a recent boom in attention by readers throughout the world.

Free Download A Book Forged in Hell: Spinoza’s Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age by Steven Nadler, John Lescault, Blackstone Publishing
English | 2021 | ISBN: B08T6JZT5T | Format: M4B / Bitrate: 32 Kbps / 9 hours and 17 minutes + EPUB | 127 Mb
The story of one of the most important – and incendiary – books in Western history.
When it appeared in 1670, Baruch Spinoza’s Theological-Political Treatise was denounced as the most dangerous book ever published – "godless", "full of abominations", "a book forged in hell…by the devil himself". Religious and secular authorities saw it as a threat to faith, social and political harmony, and everyday morality, and its author was almost universally regarded as a religious subversive and political radical who sought to spread atheism throughout Europe. Yet Spinoza’s book has contributed as much as the Declaration of Independence or Thomas Paine’s Common Sense to modern liberal, secular, and democratic thinking.
In A Book Forged in Hell, Steven Nadler tells the fascinating story of this extraordinary book: its radical claims and their background in the philosophical, religious, and political tensions of the Dutch Golden Age, as well as the vitriolic reaction these ideas inspired.

Free Download Richard J. Bernstein, "The Vicissitudes of Nature: From Spinoza to Freud"
English | ISBN: 1509555196 | 2022 | 300 pages | PDF | 1252 KB
The relation between humans and nature is at the core of the great existential threats of our time, from climate change, extreme weather, and environmental destruction to devastating pandemics. We are becoming increasingly aware of the fact that, unless we change our behavior radically and quickly, the most likely outcome will be the destruction of countless species and forms of life, including our own. But we also need to change the way we think about nature, and think about the relation between humans and nature – this is a key intellectual task.