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  • Self-Knowledge as a Personal Achievement

    Early Modern and Contemporary Views on an Ancient Imperative

    by Ursula Renz ...
    This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Self-Knowledge as a Personal Achievement proposes a novel approach to the idea that self-knowledge--or an improvement of it--is something to which we should aspire. Expressed in the ... Read more

    $53.99 CAD

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  • Spinoza on the Human Perspective

    by Ursula Renz, Sarah Tropper, Oliver Istvan Toth, Barnaby R. Hutchins, Philip Waldner ...
    Spinoza on the Human Perspective gathers a variety of contributions concerned with the role of the human perspective and the human lifeform in Spinoza's philosophy, as well as the resources that Spinoza provides for such a philosophy. While significant parts of the current scholarship tend towards ascribing an acosmist view, more recent interpretations have begun to consider human life and ... Read more

    $68.49 CAD

  • The Explainability of Experience

    Realism and Subjectivity in Spinoza's Theory of the Human Mind

    by Ursula Renz ...
    This book reconstructs Spinoza's theory of the human mind against the backdrop of the twofold notion that subjective experience is explainable and that its successful explanation is of ethical relevance, because it makes us wiser, freer, and happier. Doing so, the book defends a realist rationalist interpretation of Spinoza's approach which does not entail commitment to an ontological reduction of ... Read more

    $84.79 CAD

  • Self-Knowledge

    A History

    Edited by Ursula Renz ...
    Series series Oxford Philosophical Concepts
    The acquisition of self-knowledge is often described as one of the main goals of philosophical inquiry. At the same time, some sort of self-knowledge is often regarded as a necessary condition of our being a human agent or human subject. Thus self-knowledge is taken to constitute both the beginning and the end of humans' search for wisdom, and as such it is intricately bound up with the very idea ... Read more

    $41.59 CAD

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  • The Architectonic of Reason

    Purposiveness and Systematic Unity in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason

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    The Architectonic of Pure Reason, one of the most important sections of Kant's first Critique, raises three fundamental questions. What can I know? What should I do? What may I hope? Taken together these questions converge on a fourth one, which is at the centre of philosophy as a whole: what is the human being? Lea Ypi suggests that the answer to this question is tied to a particular account of ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Spinoza's Ethics

    Edited by Olli Koistinen ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    Since its publication in 1677, Spinoza's Ethics has fascinated philosophers, novelists, and scientists alike. It is undoubtedly one of the most exciting and contested works of Western philosophy. Written in an austere, geometrical fashion, the work teaches us how we should live, ending with an ethics in which the only thing good in itself is understanding. Spinoza argues that only that which ... Read more

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  • Phenomenology and Logic

    The Boston College Lectures on Mathematical Logic and Existentialism, Volume 18

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