Vance Maxwell
Biographic Data
| ID | 5722641 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vance Maxwell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vance |
| FAMILY NAME | Maxwell |
| SIGNATURE | MAXWELL V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Memorial University of Newfoundland |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Making God Go Away and Leave Us Alone
The title of this critical notice is provoked by a remark Professor Armour makes in Chapter IX, “Metaphysics and the Resolution of Conflict,” of Being and Idea . If we become Spinozists, “Perhaps the concept of God will emerge clearly and orient our lives, or perhaps, on the other hand, we will be able to see how to make God go away and leave us alone” (p. 98). As the title indicates, I shall argue here that Armour's book achieves the latter, and…
The Philosophical Method of Spinoza
The main purpose of this paper is to argue, against the formalist or hypothetico-deductivist approach now dominant, that God or substance is for Spinoza a discovery, or indeed a kind of revelation. In both TdlE and Ethics , Spinoza affirms substance as the outcome of a search for salvation. He could not have held that a postulate or presupposition, even if thought necessary, can save man through abstract entailment. Indeed, salvation depends on “…
The Formalist Treatment of Spinoza
Professor Bennett's new book on Spinoza is a notably ambitious one. It i s ambitious in two ways. First, having worked on the book for twenty-five years, Bennett intends a treatment of Spinoza's Ethics at once comprehensive in scope and detailed in analysis. He tells us that his book “expounds and argues with Spinoza's Ethics , in the hope of drawing into the argument philosophers who have not previously brought Spinoza into their work as an ener…
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The Formalist Treatment of Spinoza
Professor Bennett's new book on Spinoza is a notably ambitious one. It i s ambitious in two ways. First, having worked on the book for twenty-five years, Bennett intends a treatment of Spinoza's Ethics at once comprehensive in scope and detailed in analysis. He tells us that his book “expounds and argues with Spinoza's Ethics , in the hope of drawing into the argument philosophers who have not previously brought Spinoza into their work as an ener…
The Philosophical Method of Spinoza
The main purpose of this paper is to argue, against the formalist or hypothetico-deductivist approach now dominant, that God or substance is for Spinoza a discovery, or indeed a kind of revelation. In both TdlE and Ethics , Spinoza affirms substance as the outcome of a search for salvation. He could not have held that a postulate or presupposition, even if thought necessary, can save man through abstract entailment. Indeed, salvation depends on “…
Making God Go Away and Leave Us Alone
The title of this critical notice is provoked by a remark Professor Armour makes in Chapter IX, “Metaphysics and the Resolution of Conflict,” of Being and Idea . If we become Spinozists, “Perhaps the concept of God will emerge clearly and orient our lives, or perhaps, on the other hand, we will be able to see how to make God go away and leave us alone” (p. 98). As the title indicates, I shall argue here that Armour's book achieves the latter, and…
Epistemology (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought (3 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Political Theology and Sovereignty (2 works) · Argument (complex analysis) (1 works) · Armour (1 works) · Deference (1 works) · Interpretation (philosophy) (1 works)