Michael Lebuffe
Biographic Data
| ID | 1490165 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Lebuffe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Lebuffe |
| SIGNATURE | LEBUFFE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Otago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Love, God, and perfection in Spinoza: Comments on Steven Nadler
In building his account of human blessedness in Ethics 5, Spinoza offers two closely related conceptions of the love of God: the love toward God and the intellectual love of God. While Steven Nadler maintains that these loves are different affects, I argue that these are different descriptions of the same thing: any instance of the active affect that is a love toward God is at the same time an instance of the intellectual love of God. Spinoza’s v…
Spinoza's Epistemology through a Geometrical Lens
Journal Article Spinoza's Epistemology through a Geometrical Lens Get access Spinoza's Epistemology through a Geometrical Lens. By Matthew Homan. (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. Pp. xv + 256. Price £109.99.) Michael LeBuffe Michael LeBuffe University of Otago, New Zealand Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 73, Issue 3, July 2023, Pages 859–861, https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/p…
Spinoza's Ethics: A Guide
Theories About Consciousness in Spinoza's Ethics
Spinoza's remarks about consciousness in the Ethics constitute two theories about conscious experience and knowledge. Several remarks, including 3p9 and 4p8, make the point that self knowledge—an especially valuable good for Spinoza—is not available to introspection. We are, as a matter of course, conscious of ourselves, but we do not, as a matter of course, know ourselves. A second group of remarks, all of which occur in part 5 of the Ethics, em…
Hobbes's Reply to the Fool
The objection Hobbes raises in the voice of the Fool against his own argument is, apparently, that it is sometimes rational to break covenant. Hobbes's answer is puzzling, both because it seems implausible and also because it seems at odds with some of his own views. This article reviews several strategies critics have taken in trying to show that Hobbes's answer is more plausible than it seems and one attempt to show that the Fool's objection co…
Theories About Consciousness in Spinoza's Ethics
Spinoza's remarks about consciousness in the Ethics constitute two theories about conscious experience and knowledge. Several remarks, including 3p9 and 4p8, make the point that self knowledge—an especially valuable good for Spinoza—is not available to introspection. We are, as a matter of course, conscious of ourselves, but we do not, as a matter of course, know ourselves. A second group of remarks, all of which occur in part 5 of the Ethics, em…
Hobbes's Reply to the Fool
The objection Hobbes raises in the voice of the Fool against his own argument is, apparently, that it is sometimes rational to break covenant. Hobbes's answer is puzzling, both because it seems implausible and also because it seems at odds with some of his own views. This article reviews several strategies critics have taken in trying to show that Hobbes's answer is more plausible than it seems and one attempt to show that the Fool's objection co…
Theories About Consciousness in Spinoza's Ethics
Spinoza's remarks about consciousness in the Ethics constitute two theories about conscious experience and knowledge. Several remarks, including 3p9 and 4p8, make the point that self knowledge—an especially valuable good for Spinoza—is not available to introspection. We are, as a matter of course, conscious of ourselves, but we do not, as a matter of course, know ourselves. A second group of remarks, all of which occur in part 5 of the Ethics, em…
Spinoza's Epistemology through a Geometrical Lens
Journal Article Spinoza's Epistemology through a Geometrical Lens Get access Spinoza's Epistemology through a Geometrical Lens. By Matthew Homan. (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. Pp. xv + 256. Price £109.99.) Michael LeBuffe Michael LeBuffe University of Otago, New Zealand Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 73, Issue 3, July 2023, Pages 859–861, https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/p…
Spinoza's Ethics: A Guide
Love, God, and perfection in Spinoza: Comments on Steven Nadler
In building his account of human blessedness in Ethics 5, Spinoza offers two closely related conceptions of the love of God: the love toward God and the intellectual love of God. While Steven Nadler maintains that these loves are different affects, I argue that these are different descriptions of the same thing: any instance of the active affect that is a love toward God is at the same time an instance of the intellectual love of God. Spinoza’s v…
Epistemology (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought (4 works) · Medieval and Classical Philosophy (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Physics (2 works) · Political Theology and Sovereignty (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Theology (2 works)