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Spinoza's Philosophy of Divine Order

Ben Stahlberg (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

201 Seiten

2015 | New edition
Peter Lang Publishing Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4331-3044-1 (ISBN)

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While Spinoza is often interpreted as an early secular or liberal thinker, this book argues that such interpretations neglect the senses of order and authority that are at the heart of Spinoza’s idea of God. For Spinoza, God is an organized and directed totality of all that exists. God is entirely immanent to this totality, to such an extent that all things are fundamentally of God. Appreciating the full extent to which God permeates and orders every aspect of reality, allows the full sense of Spinoza’s theories of tolerance and the social contract to come into view. Rather than assuming that human beings involved in political relationships are independent, autonomous individuals, for Spinoza they are parts of a larger whole subject to distinct natural laws. Spinoza maintains that such laws manifest themselves equally and identically in the seemingly distinct realms of religion and politics. In this respect, Spinoza’s theories of religion and biblical interpretation are not properly secular in character but rather blur the standard boundary between the religious and the political as they try to recognize and codify the inviolable laws of nature – or God.

Ben Stahlberg received his PhD from Syracuse University in New York. He is currently Senior Lecturer of Religion at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York.

Contents: «The Face of the Whole Universe»: Spinoza’s Idea of God – «A Kingdom Within a Kingdom»: Spinoza on the
Individual and the Idea of the Will – «Nothing More Useful than Man…»: Spinoza on Politics – «The Supreme Reward of the Divine Law»: Law and Religion in Spinoza.

Erscheinungsdatum	08.10.2016
Reihe/Serie	American University Studies ; 353
	American University Studies ; 353
	American University Studies - Series VII: Theology and Religion ; 353
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 230 mm
Gewicht	420 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie des Mittelalters
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
ISBN-10	1-4331-3044-0 / 1433130440
ISBN-13	978-1-4331-3044-1 / 9781433130441
Zustand	Neuware