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Spinoza In The Light Of Spiritual Development
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Book Synopsis Spinoza in the light of spiritual development by : Toon van Eijk
Download or read book Spinoza in the light of spiritual development written by Toon van Eijk and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-08-03 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The famous Dutch philosopher Baruch de Spinoza (1632-1677) is difficult to comprehend. Emeritus professor Maarten van Buuren published two books on Spinoza in 2016, in which he analyses Spinoza's philosophy in a meticulous and enlightening way. A number of key concepts in Spinoza's philosophy are: an immanent, nature-inhabiting God, self-determination, freedom, power, reason, intuition and self-appropriation. In this book these key concepts are discussed based on the analysis of Van Buuren and the philosophy of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the founder of the Transcendental Meditation (TM) technique. The work of the philosophers Ken Wilber and Otto Duintjer also plays a role in this book. Although a thorough analysis of philosophical concepts is important, practical application of these concepts is paramount. Theory and practice should go hand in hand. A synthesis of philosophical reasoning and effective practices for spiritual development is needed.
Book Synopsis Spinoza's Religion by : Clare Carlisle
Download or read book Spinoza's Religion written by Clare Carlisle and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bold reevaluation of Spinoza that reveals his powerful, inclusive vision of religion for the modern age Spinoza is widely regarded as either a God-forsaking atheist or a God-intoxicated pantheist, but Clare Carlisle says that he was neither. In Spinoza’s Religion, she sets out a bold interpretation of Spinoza through a lucid new reading of his masterpiece, the Ethics. Putting the question of religion centre-stage but refusing to convert Spinozism to Christianity, Carlisle reveals that “being in God” unites Spinoza’s metaphysics and ethics. Spinoza’s Religion unfolds a powerful, inclusive philosophical vision for the modern age—one that is grounded in a profound questioning of how to live a joyful, fully human life. Like Spinoza himself, the Ethics doesn’t fit into any ready-made religious category. But Carlisle shows how it wrestles with the question of religion in strikingly original ways, responding both critically and constructively to the diverse, broadly Christian context in which Spinoza lived and worked. Philosophy itself, as Spinoza practiced it, became a spiritual endeavor that expressed his devotion to a truthful, virtuous way of life. Offering startling new insights into Spinoza’s famously enigmatic ideas about eternal life and the intellectual love of God, Carlisle uncovers a Spinozist religion that integrates self-knowledge, desire, practice, and embodied ethical life to reach toward our “highest happiness”—to rest in God. Seen through Carlisle’s eyes, the Ethics prompts us to rethink not only Spinoza but also religion itself.
Book Synopsis The Spiritual Automaton by : Eugene Marshall
Download or read book The Spiritual Automaton written by Eugene Marshall and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eugene Marshall presents an original, systematic account of Spinoza's philosophy of mind, in which the mind is presented as an affective mechanism that, when rational, behaves as a spiritual automaton. He explores key themes in Spinoza's thought, and illuminates his philosophical and ethical project in a striking new way.
Download or read book Healing the Mind written by Neal Grossman and published by Susquehanna University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book presents Spinoza as a spiritual psychotherapist. Spiritual, because the goal of Spinoza's philosophical system is union with God; psychotherapist, because the path to this goal lies through an understanding and ultimate transcendence of our afflictive emotions.".
Book Synopsis The Essential Baruch Spinoza by : Baruch Spinoza
Download or read book The Essential Baruch Spinoza written by Baruch Spinoza and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three philosophical works by the seventeenth-century Enlightenment thinker and author of Ethics. How to Improve Your Mind In this earlier work, Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza articulates his view that life is best lived with the supreme happiness of knowing God’s infinite love. By extension, all earthly pursuits—including money, fame, and sex—are mere distractions from the greater joy of the soul’s quietude. Translated by the philosopher and founder of the Philosophical Library, Dagobert D. Runes. Runes also provides exclusive commentary and biographical notes. The Road to Inner Freedom Spinoza views the ability to experience rational love of God as the key to mastering the contradictory and violent human emotions. The Book of God The Book of God, one of Spinzoa’s earliest works, came to light only a hundred years ago in two slightly varying Dutch manuscripts. Its youthful author lived in turbulent times, when the Western world was torn by civil and religious strife, and bullies, bigots and pseudo-prophets vied for the ear of a fearful people. While Europe was in an uproar over the right church, Spinoza was seeking the right God. This book is the first known report of his findings. Translated by Dr. A. Wolf from the Dutch [the author’s Tractatus de Deo et homine version] and edited and with an introduction by Dagobert D. Runes.
Book Synopsis THE SPIRIT OF SPINOZA by : Neal Grossman
Download or read book THE SPIRIT OF SPINOZA written by Neal Grossman and published by ICRL Press. This book was released on 2014-05-02 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BENEDICT SPINOZA was a 17th-century philosopher and spiritual psychotherapist. This intellectual self-help book provides important insights from Spinoza’s system of thought in a format accessible to the general reader, as well as to those already familiar with his philosophy. By applying his method to our personal lives, we may free ourselves from bondage to our lower emotions and habitual behaviors and thus begin to enjoy the “continuous, supreme, and unending happiness” promised by Spinoza. “Those of us who came of age in the twentieth century were taught that we must adopt a crazy-making strategy of compartmentalizing our lives, putting our rational, scientific side into one corner and our psychological/spiritual side in another. The precarious state of our world is evidence enough that this approach to life is a destructive dead end. You are holding an effective alternative in your hand. The Spirit of Spinoza is a brilliant treatise that has been field-tested by Professor Neal Grossman in his own life and that of his students over decades. This book is a master stroke by a master teacher about a master philosopher. It is also delightfully dangerous, for it has the power to shift one’s life onto a new axis, where it becomes possible to blend knowledge and wisdom into an experience that can best be described, quite simply, as waking up.” —Larry Dossey, MD, author of One Mind: How Our Individual Mind Is Part of a Greater Consciousness and Why It Matters
Download or read book Spinoza written by Rudolf Kayser and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Everything in Its Right Place by : Joseph Almog
Download or read book Everything in Its Right Place written by Joseph Almog and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-17 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Everything in Its Right Place, Joseph Almog develops the unitarian and universalist metaphysics of Spinoza. Spinoza's ground zero thesis is that "Nature is one and all." Everything (including God, mathematics, morals, our own thoughts) finds its place within Spinoza's (capital N) Nature. It is the place that each thing occupies within the grid of Nature-from God on down the cosmic tree of being-that determines its fundamental (lowercase n) nature. For Spinoza, one's nature is determined by one's place in Nature or, in terms of the fundamental axiom of the book-the Nature-unfolding axiom: the nature of x=Nature at x. Almog's reading of Spinoza is distinct in its understanding of the deductive abstractions of part I-II of the Ethics by means of the concrete illustrations of Spinoza's intended subject matter in his political writings, where he tells us directly (i) what Nature is and (ii) how man's nature is not a separate kingdom from the Nature-kingdom but merely an unfolding of it. This leads, as in the Ethics, to a final chapter on what it meant to Spinoza to live in symbiosis with Nature and, therefore, to be one with it-and with God.
Book Synopsis Spinoza's Christian Project by : Aldo Di Giovanni
Download or read book Spinoza's Christian Project written by Aldo Di Giovanni and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spinoza was the 17th Century's philosopher of the Word of God: the philosopher of true Christian Salvation and Holiness. Within the corpus of Spinoza's work there are many references, to a significant and important place for Christ in the work of Spinoza. Actual texts and historical information readily affirms this. The textual and historical references are used extensively in this booklet to make a case that from a spiritual point view, Spinoza's life and works lose their mystery and make clear sense. Those references in turn point to a significant and important place for Christ in Spinoza's life. Based on his writings and information about his life, Spinoza had a bone fide spiritual experience of union with God of the kind that he describes as a “second birth” or as being “born again”, which resulted in his knowing what he came to refer to as “Christ after the spirit”. This is manifest in Spinoza's selective treatment of Christian churches and denominations. Spinoza does not treat all Christians the same way. He distinguishes between those of the “superstitious kind” and those who follow “Christ after the spirit”. It is puzzling that professional philosophers are reluctant to factor in Spinoza's use of Christ and the spirit of Christ into their understanding of Spinoza's life work and life's purpose. To date, Spinoza's critical work in regards to Christian thought and religion remains exceptionally relevant. Yet he is not recognized and acknowledged as a preeminent Christian thinker. Over many years, the responses to Spinoza's work varied, but two counterproductive and disconcerting trends are noteworthy. Some people, with little sense of the reality of God have tried in one way or another, to simply ignore or inadequately explain away Spinoza's spirituality and work, in particular his Christian spirituality and work. Others, mostly from established 'theo-political' churches, have largely viewed Spinoza from a crass materialist view, with materialistic proclivities. From their established church frameworks, the latter have found Spinoza an anathema. Their vitriol is born of their own materialism, and both a meagre and superficial grasp of what Spinoza calls “Christ according to the spirit” Spinoza personally knew God and the idea of God to be real. For Spinoza God is not part of a discussion or thesis. God and the spirit of Christ are the keystones or catalysts of Spinoza's life work. Denying their reality for Spinoza, or trying to explain them away from Spinoza's thought, keeps Spinoza's work from coming together or from sitting right. For Spinoza, God and Christ are real and to not 'get that' is to entirely miss the mark in regards to Spinoza and his work. Spinoza understood the relation of people to God: as animal creatures set in duration or time and place, and as spiritual creatures set “under the form of eternity”. The application of Spinoza's scientific method allows for the demonstration by reason and experiment of personal formation of the particular spiritual person, which is different from the formation of the animal (carnal or after the flesh) person. Spinoza is a major influence in western philosophy and theology. Spinoza had a significant and lasting influence on the Enlightenment. But, it may be his larger contribution is yet to come and it will be in the area of what Spinoza would call 'true' Christian Theology and Christology. This booklet, 'Spinoza's Christian Project: Chemistry, Christ & Salvation' is a modest study of Spinoza's theo-philosophical work, with some consideration of Spinoza's scientific experimental and scientific reasoning approach to piety or spiritual life. Spinoza was an outstanding and innovative 17th century scientist and a philosopher of scientific methodology. Given Spinoza's reliance on sense experience and his scientific method, Spinoza has an empiricist approach to demonstrating actually present existential epistemology and theology.
Book Synopsis Spinoza and the Politics of Renaturalization by : Hasana Sharp
Download or read book Spinoza and the Politics of Renaturalization written by Hasana Sharp and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-02 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There have been many Spinozas over the centuries: atheist, romantic pantheist, great thinker of the multitude, advocate of the liberated individual, and rigorous rationalist. The common thread connecting all of these clashing perspectives is Spinoza’s naturalism, the idea that humanity is part of nature, not above it. In this sophisticated new interpretation of Spinoza’s iconoclastic philosophy, Hasana Sharp draws on his uncompromising naturalism to rethink human agency, ethics, and political practice. Sharp uses Spinoza to outline a practical wisdom of “renaturalization,” showing how ideas, actions, and institutions are never merely products of human intention or design, but outcomes of the complex relationships among natural forces beyond our control. This lack of a metaphysical or moral division between humanity and the rest of nature, Sharp contends, can provide the basis for an ethical and political practice free from the tendency to view ourselves as either gods or beasts. Sharp’s groundbreaking argument critically engages with important contemporary thinkers—including deep ecologists, feminists, and race and critical theorists—making Spinoza and the Politics of Renaturalization vital for a wide range of scholars.
Book Synopsis Spinoza: Theological-Political Treatise by : Jonathan Israel
Download or read book Spinoza: Theological-Political Treatise written by Jonathan Israel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-05-03 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise (1670) is one of the most important philosophical works of the early modern period. In it Spinoza discusses at length the historical circumstances of the composition and transmission of the Bible, demonstrating the fallibility of both its authors and its interpreters. He argues that free enquiry is not only consistent with the security and prosperity of a state but actually essential to them, and that such freedom flourishes best in a democratic and republican state in which individuals are left free while religious organizations are subordinated to the secular power. His Treatise has profoundly influenced the subsequent history of political thought, Enlightenment 'clandestine' or radical philosophy, Bible hermeneutics, and textual criticism more generally. It is presented here in a translation of great clarity and accuracy by Michael Silverthorne and Jonathan Israel, with a substantial historical and philosophical introduction by Jonathan Israel.
Book Synopsis On the Improvement of the Understanding by : Benedictus de Spinoza
Download or read book On the Improvement of the Understanding written by Benedictus de Spinoza and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "On the Improvement of the Understanding" is a work by the seventeenth-century philosopher Baruch Spinoza, published posthumously in 1677. In the work, the author attempts to formulate a philosophical method that would allow the mind to form the clear and distinct ideas necessary for its developent.
Book Synopsis Spinoza's Short Treatise on God, Man, and Human Welfare by : Benedictus de Spinoza
Download or read book Spinoza's Short Treatise on God, Man, and Human Welfare written by Benedictus de Spinoza and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Spiritual Exercises and Early Modern Philosophy by : Simone D'Agostino
Download or read book Spiritual Exercises and Early Modern Philosophy written by Simone D'Agostino and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-09-20 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his renowned collection Philosophy as a Way of Life, Pierre Hadot suggests that the original aspect of philosophy as a method by which one exercises oneself to achieve a new way of living and seeing the world fails with the rise of modernity. In that period, philosophy becomes increasingly theoretical, tending toward a system. However, Hadot himself glimpses at the dawn of modernity some instances of the original aspect of philosophy still very much present, and in his wake, Michel Foucault warns that between the late 16th and early 17th centuries the philosophical question of the reform of the mind attests to a still very close link between asceticism and access to truth. This book aims to develop just such an idea by thoroughly analyzing the most representative works of the reform of the mind in the early modern period: Francis Bacon’s New Organon (1620), René Descartes’ Discourse on the Method (1637), and Baruch Spinoza’s Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect (1677). From this analysis it will emerge that these modern works fully deserve to be counted among the tradition of philosophy as way of life. On closer inspection, the inquiries about method elaborated in these works are fully understandable only when read in the light of a broader and more complex philosophical need: to establish the spiritual conditions for accessing truth and aspiring to full self-realization.
Book Synopsis Looking for Spinoza by : Antonio R. Damasio
Download or read book Looking for Spinoza written by Antonio R. Damasio and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2003 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Book Synopsis Spinoza and Moral Freedom by : S. Paul Kashap
Download or read book Spinoza and Moral Freedom written by S. Paul Kashap and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spinoza and Moral Freedom guides the reader through Spinoza's principal ideas and powerful lines of reasoning, clearing up obscurities along the way, while acknowledging the genuine difficulties and gaps. At the same time, it neither intrudes the author's own beliefs and personality upon the reader nor gives instructions on what the reader's own final judgment should be. What Kashap offers is pure Spinoza, rather than a Spinoza reformed in light of another person's wishes or preoccupations. In this respect, Kashap's approach is refreshingly new and unique. The style is graceful and lucid, and in no way obscured by philosophical jargon.
Book Synopsis The Collected Works of Spinoza, Volume II by : Benedictus de Spinoza
Download or read book The Collected Works of Spinoza, Volume II written by Benedictus de Spinoza and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-13 with total page 793 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second and final volume of the most authoritative English-language edition of Spinoza's writings The Collected Works of Spinoza provides, for the first time in English, a truly satisfactory edition of all of Spinoza's writings, with accurate and readable translations, based on the best critical editions of the original-language texts, done by a scholar who has published extensively on the philosopher's work. The centerpiece of this second volume is Spinoza’s Theological-Political Treatise, a landmark work in the history of biblical scholarship, the first argument for democracy by a major philosopher, and a forceful defense of freedom of thought and expression. This work is accompanied by Spinoza’s later correspondence, much of which responds to criticism of the Theological-Political Treatise. The volume also includes his last work, the unfinished Political Treatise, which builds on the foundations of the Theological-Political Treatise to offer plans for the organization of nontyrannical monarchies and aristocracies. The elaborate editorial apparatus—including prefaces, notes, glossary, and indexes—assists the reader in understanding one of the world’s most fascinating, but also most difficult, philosophers. Of particular interest is the glossary-index, which provides extensive commentary on Spinoza’s technical vocabulary. A milestone of scholarship more than forty-five years in the making, The Collected Works of Spinoza is an essential edition for anyone with a serious interest in Spinoza or the history of philosophy.
