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- catalog abstract "In this lucid and elegantly written book, Genevieve Lloyd reads Spinoza's philosophy as a profound articulation of ideas of individuality, selfhood, and freedom. Focusing on Spinoza's Ethics, Lloyd illuminates as well his transformation of Descartes's concepts of substance, mind, and body, and the relations between Spinoza's metaphysics and his ethical views. Spinoza's doctrine of the uniqueness of substance has been interpreted as absorbing individual self-consciousness into an all-embracing whole. Here, Lloyd addresses the dilemmas posed by the Cartesian legacy of what it means to be a self: the sense of isolation of a contained intellectual substance trying to establish contact with an "external" world, the limitations of an idea of knowledge that sharply distinguishes between reason and the passions, problems in thinking about time and mortality in ways that allow no middle ground between an afterlife and annihilation, and tensions in ideals of personhood that claim to transcend sexual difference. Throughout, Lloyd emphasizes the ethical importance of Spinoza's metaphysics. Out of his treatment of substance and its modes emerge new ways of thinking about self-consciousness, freedom, gender difference, the passions, and time. As the influence of Descartes wanes, Lloyd suggests that Spinoza's philosophy may help us rethink some of the most troubling issues surrounding our understanding of the self.".
- catalog contributor b6552160.
- catalog created "1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1994.".
- catalog description "In this lucid and elegantly written book, Genevieve Lloyd reads Spinoza's philosophy as a profound articulation of ideas of individuality, selfhood, and freedom. Focusing on Spinoza's Ethics, Lloyd illuminates as well his transformation of Descartes's concepts of substance, mind, and body, and the relations between Spinoza's metaphysics and his ethical views. Spinoza's doctrine of the uniqueness of substance has been interpreted as absorbing individual self-consciousness into an all-embracing whole. Here, Lloyd addresses the dilemmas posed by the Cartesian legacy of what it means to be a self: the sense of isolation of a contained intellectual substance trying to establish contact with an "external" world, the limitations of an idea of knowledge that sharply distinguishes between reason and the passions, problems in thinking about time and mortality in ways that allow no middle ground between an afterlife and annihilation, and tensions in ideals of personhood that claim to transcend sexual difference. Throughout, Lloyd emphasizes the ethical importance of Spinoza's metaphysics. Out of his treatment of substance and its modes emerge new ways of thinking about self-consciousness, freedom, gender difference, the passions, and time. As the influence of Descartes wanes, Lloyd suggests that Spinoza's philosophy may help us rethink some of the most troubling issues surrounding our understanding of the self.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-178) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction ---- 1. Substance and selfhood --- 2. Knowledge, truth, and error --- 3. Reason and the passions --- 4. Intuitive knowledge and the fraternity of the mind --- 5. Dominance and difference ---- Conclusion: Reading Spinoza.".
- catalog extent "182 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Part of nature.".
- catalog identifier "0801429994 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Part of nature.".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Ithaca : Cornell University Press,".
- catalog relation "Part of nature.".
- catalog subject "170 20".
- catalog subject "B3974 .L56 1994".
- catalog subject "Ethics.".
- catalog subject "Self (Philosophy)".
- catalog subject "Self-knowledge, Theory of.".
- catalog subject "Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677. Ethica.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction ---- 1. Substance and selfhood --- 2. Knowledge, truth, and error --- 3. Reason and the passions --- 4. Intuitive knowledge and the fraternity of the mind --- 5. Dominance and difference ---- Conclusion: Reading Spinoza.".
- catalog title "Part of nature : self-knowledge in Spinoza's Ethics / Genevieve Lloyd.".
- catalog type "text".