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Published: 22 June 2017
... Humboldt Wilhelm von romanticism and historicism Ranke Leopold von Wellhausen Julius Dilthey Wilhelm Droysen Johann Gustav foundationalism Briggs Charles Augustus Torah Pentateuch empirical models David Carr Julius Wellhausen Jean Astruc Benedict Spinoza Historicism Romanticism Since...
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Published: 06 March 2008
... Collins epigrams esoteric/exoteric Lucan (Pharsalia) Pantheists Tacitus title‐pages Benedict Spinoza John Toland And as Epicurus so other Atheists in a like manner, have commonly had their Vizards and Disguises; Atheism for the most part prudently chusing to walk abroad in Masquerade...
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Published: 01 December 2015
... Louis Negri Antonio selection signs Nielsen K Hvidtfelt Garrett Don Benedict Spinoza Ethics Geometrical order Individuation Affects The more we understand singular things, the more we understand God. Spinoza, Ethics Vp24 A distinctive feature of Spinoza’s thought...
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Published online: 25 February 2025
Published in print: 01 April 2025
... of social, political, and religious history. Volume XII includes chapters dedicated to a wide range of topics in the philosophies of Margaret Cavendish, Blaise Pascal, Benedict Spinoza, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, David Hume, and Mary Shepherd....
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Published: 08 April 2012
... within Stoicism is credited to Benedict Spinoza and his detailed examinations on the nature of God. The Neostoicisms of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century had been explicitly intended as supplements to mainstream varieties of Christianity. Although Lipsius was notorious for switching...
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Published: 03 March 2014
.... The dogmatist is not a person who is simply wrong; he is simply not a person. Fichte Johann Gottlieb idealism finitude God agency Plato Kant Immanuel dogmatism intention freedom J.G. Fichte Benedict Spinoza Idealism Self-consciousness Activity ...
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Published online: 22 September 2016
Published in print: 01 December 2015
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Published: 01 December 2015
... Nietzsche Friedrich Barber Daniel Bolaño Roberto giving gifts signs Descartes Rene Husserl Edmund Negri Antonio sense Leibniz Gottfried Wilhelm Dante Divine Comedy Schelling F W J Levinas Emmanuel Tournier Michel Spinoza Benedict Gilles Deleuze Erlangen Program Benedict Spinoza Topology...
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Published: 12 October 2021
... Richard Dennett Daniel Harris Sam “scientism ” Kitcher Philip Epicurus Epicureanism David Hume Benedict Spinoza Baron D’Holbach true religion atheism Philip Kitcher And though the philosophical truth of any proposition by no means depends on its tendency to promote the interests...
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Published: 01 September 2011
... entmannt Jewish Question Judenfrage body parts identification s Berthold Auerbach chosenness circumcision George Eliot feminization Sigmund Freud Benedict Spinoza Leo Strauss Tractatus Theologico Politicus Julius Wellhausen In the third chapter of his Tractatus Theologico-Politicus...
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Published online: 19 March 2015
Published in print: 12 February 2015
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Published: 02 July 2009
... of Benedict Spinoza, Arthur Schopenhauer, and Friedrich Nietzsche on hope. anxiety and hope consciousness hopeful philosophy fatalism hope negation of hope tragedy Hesiod Works and Days future hope oriented to passivity Pindar Aeschylus Prometheus Bound certainty Sophocles Antigone uncertainty...
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Published: 16 April 1992
...This chapter discusses the two theses on freedom and necessity from Benedict Spinoza's book ‘Ethics’. The first of these theses states that the sense of freedom of action and decision is nothing but illusion because it implies a belief that is incompatible with the universal reign of natural...
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Published: 08 December 2021
... political standing. A third early modern thinker, Benedict Spinoza, also discussed Jewish distinctiveness and diaspora for activist ends, but did so in a deflationary way, as his concern was not with improving the political status of Jews, but rather with promoting the general public’s freedom...
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Published: 19 April 2018
...), several writers—including Thomas Hobbes, Isaac La Peyrère, Benedict Spinoza, Richard Simon, and Jean Le Clerc—argued against the traditional belief that Moses wrote the first five books of the Bible. One leading responder to this view was Louis Ellie Du Pin, a French Catholic ecumenist, and Edwards...
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Published: 19 November 2020
... Galileo Paley William Roberts Robert C Gert Bernard Skinner Quentin Plato Spinoza Benedict Hutcheson Francis Shaftesbury Third Earl of Cicero Seneca Lucius Annaeus René Descartes Thomas Hobbes Benedict Spinoza rational gratitude emotion passion René Descartes and Thomas Hobbes disagreed...
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Published: 04 February 2025
... of nonsense and macaronic verse in traditional English refrains reveals some surprising connections between human language and the language learning of other species. nonsemantic birdsong refrain process philosophy nature poetry Immanuel Kant Benedict Spinoza Alfred North Whitehead W. K. Wimsatt John...