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Spinoza's Dream: On Nature and Meaning

David Weissman

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Description:Meaning (significance) and nature are this book's principal topics. They seem an odd couple, like raisins and numbers, though they elide when meanings of a global sort--ideologies and religions, for example--promote ontologies that subordinate nature. Setting one against the other makes reality contentious. It signifies workmates and a coal face to miners, gluons to physicists, prayer and redemption to priests. Are there many realities, or many perspectives on one? The answer I prefer is the comprehensive naturalism anticipated by Aristotle and Spinoza: natura naturans, natura naturata. Nature naturing is an array of mutually conditioning material processes in spacetime. Each structure or event--storm clouds forming, nature natured--is self-differentiating, self-stabilizing, and sometimes self-disassembling; each alters or transforms a pre-existing state of affairs. This surmise anticipated discoveries and analyses to which neither thinker had access, though physics and biology confirm their hypothesis beyond reasonable doubt.Hence the question this book considers: Is reality divided: nature vrs. lived experience? Or is experience, with all its meanings and values, the complex expression of natural processes?We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Spinoza's Dream: On Nature and Meaning. To get started finding Spinoza's Dream: On Nature and Meaning, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 201

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: de Gruyter

Release: 2016

ISBN: 3110479818

Description: Meaning (significance) and nature are this book's principal topics. They seem an odd couple, like raisins and numbers, though they elide when meanings of a global sort--ideologies and religions, for example--promote ontologies that subordinate nature. Setting one against the other makes reality contentious. It signifies workmates and a coal face to miners, gluons to physicists, prayer and redemption to priests. Are there many realities, or many perspectives on one? The answer I prefer is the comprehensive naturalism anticipated by Aristotle and Spinoza: natura naturans, natura naturata. Nature naturing is an array of mutually conditioning material processes in spacetime. Each structure or event--storm clouds forming, nature natured--is self-differentiating, self-stabilizing, and sometimes self-disassembling; each alters or transforms a pre-existing state of affairs. This surmise anticipated discoveries and analyses to which neither thinker had access, though physics and biology confirm their hypothesis beyond reasonable doubt.Hence the question this book considers: Is reality divided: nature vrs. lived experience? Or is experience, with all its meanings and values, the complex expression of natural processes?We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Spinoza's Dream: On Nature and Meaning. To get started finding Spinoza's Dream: On Nature and Meaning, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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