Spinoza on the parts of God

被引:0
作者
Bischof, Kay Malte [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Notre Dame, Dept Philosophy, 100 Malloy Hall, Notre Dame, IN 46556 USA
来源
INQUIRY-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY | 2024年
关键词
Baruch de Spinoza; Moses Mendelssohn; Linda Zagzebski; theism; Spinozism; substance monism;
D O I
10.1080/0020174X.2024.2362363
中图分类号
B82 [伦理学(道德学)];
学科分类号
摘要
I defend Spinoza's claim that extension is an attribute that an indivisible substance, such as God, could have. However, in order to explain why, we must abandon two long held orthodoxies in Spinoza scholarship. First, Spinoza acknowledges only parts that do not depend on their whole. Second, God, considered as natuara naturans, has no parts of any kind. Against these orthodoxies, I show that having parts which depend on their whole, for Spinoza, does not entail divisibility and that God, considered as natuara naturans, must have such parts in order to be extended. Along the way, we will have a closer look at Spinoza's mereology and address apparently conflicting statements that Spinoza makes about the relation of part and whole that have long vexed commentators.
引用
收藏
页数:31
相关论文
共 46 条
[1]  
Bayle Pierre., 1740, Dictionaire historique et critique, par Mr Pierre Bayle, V5th edition
[2]  
Bennett Jonathan., 1984, A Study of Spinoza's Ethics
[3]  
Bennett Jonathan., 1995, The Cambridge Companion to Spinoza, P61
[4]  
Curley Edwin., 1969, SPINOZAS METAPHYSICS, DOI [10.4159/harvard.9780674330450, DOI 10.4159/HARVARD.9780674330450]
[5]  
Della Rocca M., 1996, REPRESENTATION MIND
[6]  
DellaRocca M, 2008, ROUTL PHILOS, P1
[7]  
Descartes R., 1991, The Philosophical Writings of Descartes, VIII
[8]  
DESCARTES R., 1904, OEuvres de Descartes, VIX-I
[9]  
Descartes Rene., 1984, PHILOS WRITINGS DESC, DOI DOI 10.1017/CBO9780511805042
[10]   The divine essence and the conception of God in Spinoza [J].
Deveaux, S .
SYNTHESE, 2003, 135 (03) :329-338