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Editors’ Introduction

Autoři: Campbell Michael Walter

Rok: 2020

Druh publikace: kapitola v odborné knize

Název zdroje: Spinoza on Ethics and Understanding

Název nakladatele: Anthem Press

Místo vydání: Londýn

Strana od-do: XI - XXV

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Jazyk	Název	Abstrakt	Klíčová slova
cze	Editors’ Introduction	In this introduction we provide an overview of the main themes of Peter Winch's lectures on Spinoza. We concentrate on how Winch connects Spinoza's conception of judgement to both his critique of Cartesian metaphysics, and also his distinctive account of ethics. For Winch's Spinoza, assertion is an activity undertaken by a particular human being working within a certain context, and this in turn entails that within each assertion there is some degree of truth. By developing a theory of falsehood and negation based on this insight, Spinoza shows how, starting from any particular assertion, we can in principle attain a clear view of all things sub specie aeternitatis, By combining this with his doctrine of strict determinism, Winch's Spinoza advocates a conception of the world on which blessedness is to be attained through a progressive refinement of the understanding and on which our ordinary categories of ethical assessment are themselves the product of confused ideas. We argue that Winch therefore presents an interpretation of Spinoza which is both original and important; original in its foregrounding philosophical elements of language, such as assertion and negation, and important in presenting an internally coherent and unifying interpretation of Spinoza's Ethics, one which reveals the connection between its metaphysical and its ethical aspects.	Spinoza; metafyzika; epistemologie; etika; porozumění
eng	Editors’ Introduction	In this introduction we provide an overview of the main themes of Peter Winch's lectures on Spinoza. We concentrate on how Winch connects Spinoza's conception of judgement to both his critique of Cartesian metaphysics, and also his distinctive account of ethics. For Winch's Spinoza, assertion is an activity undertaken by a particular human being working within a certain context, and this in turn entails that within each assertion there is some degree of truth. By developing a theory of falsehood and negation based on this insight, Spinoza shows how, starting from any particular assertion, we can in principle attain a clear view of all things sub specie aeternitatis, By combining this with his doctrine of strict determinism, Winch's Spinoza advocates a conception of the world on which blessedness is to be attained through a progressive refinement of the understanding and on which our ordinary categories of ethical assessment are themselves the product of confused ideas. We argue that Winch therefore presents an interpretation of Spinoza which is both original and important; original in its foregrounding philosophical elements of language, such as assertion and negation, and important in presenting an internally coherent and unifying interpretation of Spinoza's Ethics, one which reveals the connection between its metaphysical and its ethical aspects.	Spinoza; Metaphysics; Epistemology; Ethics; Understanding

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