The Ethics and Culture of Modern Time (The Ethics’ Role in the Doctrines of Descartes and Spinoza)
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https://doi.org/10.22240/sent21.02.016Keywords:
Descartes, Spinoza, ethics, logics, method, medicineAbstract
The relation between the doctrines of Descartes and Spinoza and the medieval philosophy in particular, can be seen in ethics, to be more precise, in the correlation between metaphysics and ethics. Though the initial intention of Spinoza is the development of method, its terminology used for the method’s characteristics, that is treatment, refinement, definitely indicates the relation between medicine and ethics. Ethical orientation of logics is clearly expressed in the logical treatises that belong to the Cartesian tradition.References
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Gabbey, A. (1993). Descartes' physics and Descarte' mechanics: chiken and egg? In Voss, S. (Ed.), Essays on the philosophy and science of Rene Descartes (pp. 311-323). Oxford: Oxford UP.
Israel, J. I. (2001). Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650-1750. Oxford, & New York: Oxford UP. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198206088.001.0001
Israel, J. I. (2006). Enlightenment contested: philosophy, modernity, and the emancipation of man, 1670-1752. Oxford, & New York: Oxford UP. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199279227.001.0001
Jardine, N. (1997). Keeping order in the school of Padua: Jacopo Zabarella and Francesco Piccolomini on the offices of philosophy In D. Di Liscia, et al. (Eds.), Method and order in the Renaissance philosophy of nature: The Aristotle commentary tradition (pp. 253-270). Aldershot: Ashgate.
Maidanskiy, А. D. (2000). The Problem of universal logical method in Descartes' and Spinoza's works. Doctoral thesis. [In Russian]. Moscow: IFRAN.
Nadler, S. (2002). Radical Enlightenment. British journal for the history of philosophy, 10(2), 289-194. https://doi.org/10.1080/09608780210123391
Rudavsky, T. (2007). Matter, mind and hylomorphism in Ibn Gabirol and Spinoza. In H. Lagerlund (Ed.), Forming the Mind. Essays on the Internal Senses and the Mind-Body Problem from Avicenna to the Medical Enlightenment (pp. 207-235). Dordrecht: Springer.
Spinoza B. (1957). The Ethics. [In Russian]. In B. Spinoza, Selected works in 2 vol. (Vol. I, pp. 313-590). Moscow: Gospolitizdat.
Spinoza, B. (1957). On the Improvement of the Understanding [In Russian]. In B. Spinoza, Selected works in 2 vol. (Vol. I, рр. 274-312). Moscow: Gospolitizdat.
Van Bunge, W. (1997). Spinoza's Jewish identity and use of context. In S. Nadler, et al. (Eds.), Studia Spinozana. Vol. 13: Spinoza and Jewish Identity (pp. 100-118). Wuerzburg: Koenigshausen & Neumann.
Van Ruler, H. Geulincx and Spinoza: Books, Backgrounds and Biographies. In W. Van Bunge (Ed.), Studia Spinozana. Vol. 15: Spinoza and Dutch Cartesianism (pp. 89-106). Wuerzburg: Koenigshausen & Neumann.
Wallace, W. A. (1984). Galileo and his sources. The heritage of the Collegio Romano in Galileo's science. Princeton: Princeton UP.
Wallace, W. A. (1988). Randall Redivivus: Galileo and the Paduan Aristotelians. Journal of the history of ideas, 49(1), 133-149. https://doi.org/10.2307/2709707
Wolfson, H. A. (1934). The philosophy of Spinoza: Unfolding the latent processes of his reasoning (Vol. I). Cambridge, Mass: Harvard UP.
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Kaufman, I. (2009). The Ethics and Culture of Modern Time (The Ethics’ Role in the Doctrines of Descartes and Spinoza). Sententiae, 21(2), 16–24. https://doi.org/10.22240/sent21.02.016
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