Steven Nadler
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 459968 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Steven Nadler |
| PRENOMES | Steven |
| SOBRENOME | Nadler |
| ASSINATURA | NADLER S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9823-8345 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 68 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 6 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 52 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 16 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1988 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
The Author Responds
Spinoza and Maimonides on human perfection and the love of God
Part Five of Spinoza’s Ethics includes a notoriously challenging set of propositions about human perfection. Part of the difficulty in interpreting these elements of the work arises from neglecting important philosophical background for the relevant propositions, namely, medieval Jewish rationalism and Maimonides in particular. Spinoza was well acquainted with Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexted as well as his halakhic or legal writings. For both…
The Many Lives of René Descartes
A review essay of recent biographies of Descartes
Jewish Censorship of Menasseh ben Israel's Piedra Gloriosa
Jewish Censorship of Menasseh ben Israel's Piedra Gloriosa:A New Document from the Archives Steven Nadler (bio) and Victor Tiribás (bio) In late 1654 or early 1655,1 Menasseh ben Israel, one of four rabbis serving the Portuguese Jews of Amsterdam's Talmud Torah Congregation—and arguably the most famous Jew in Europe in the seventeenth century—published a book titled Piedra gloriosa (Glorious stone).2 Framed as a commentary on the Book of Daniel, …
The Oxford Handbook of Descartes and Cartesianism
A collection of fifty essays on Descartes and his influence in the seventeenth century. The first section is devoted to various aspects of Descartes’s philosophy (biography, epistemology, metaphysics, natural philosophy (science), mathematics, philosophical theology, etc.). The second section is devoted to Descartes’s influence, especially Cartesians and the Cartesian movement, in France, the Netherlands, Italy, England and elsewhere. The third s…
Oxford Handbook of Descartes and Cartesianism
The Oxford Handbook of Descartes and Cartesianism comprises fifty specially written chapters on Rene Descartes (1596-1650) and Cartesianism, the dominant paradigm for philosophy and science in the seventeenth century, written by an international group of leading scholars of early modern philosophy. The first part focuses on the various aspects of Descartes's biography (including his background, intellectual contexts, writings, and correspondence)…
Pierre-Daniel Huet, Skeptic Critic of Cartesianism and Defender of Religion
Pierre-Daniel Huet (1630–1721) was Cartesianism’s most implacable critic ever. And more than any other critic, he raised the Cartesian issues that have been of perennial interest: the method of doubt, the cogito , clarity and distinctness as criteria of truth, the natural light, the circularity of the Meditations , proofs of God’s existence, etc. Moreover, under the term Cartesianism his Censura Philosophiae Cartesianae (1689) attacks both Descar…
The Condemnations of Cartesian Natural Philosophy Under Louis XIV (1661–91)
The interdiction of the teaching of Descartes’s natural philosophy pronounced by Louis XIV in 1671 was followed by a wave of official condemnations. The first part of this chapter gathers together the facts that led some historians to speak of the persecution of Cartesianism. In the second part, it is argued that various causes explain these condemnations, first by relativizing the importance of the doctrinal question of the Eucharist, second by …
Spinoza and Menasseh ben Israel
An examination of what has been claimed about the relationship between the seventeenth-century philosopher Bento (Benedictus) Spinoza and Menasseh ben Israel, a rabbi of the Amsterdam Portuguese-Jewish community. The article shows that, despite claims by scholars that Menasseh was Spinoza's teacher and intellectual mentor, in fact there is no evidence for the former claim, and much evidence that the two men were, intellectually, diametrically opp…
A Source for Menasseh ben Israel’s Printer’s Mark
This zuta offers a presentation of the various printer’s marks used by Menasseh ben Israel, and especially the discovery of some sources in Dutch emblem literature for his most prominent and well-known mark and its motto, ‘Non odit tamen.’
Heretics!
The Influence of Abraham Cohen de Herrera’s Kabbalah on Spinoza’s Metaphysics
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The Art of Cartesianism
Recent Work on Spinoza
Recent Work on Spinoza Steven Nadler Joshua Parens. Maimonides and Spinoza: Their Conflicting Views of Human Nature. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. Pp. 226. Yitzhak Melamed. Spinoza’s Metaphysics: Substance and Thought. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. xxii + 232. In a groundbreaking 1984 article, Warren Zev Harvey attempted “to sketch a portrait of Spinoza as a Maimonidean, as the last major representative of a tradition t…
L'ombre de Malebranche
La première lettre d'Arnauld à Leibniz, le 13 mars 1686, fut écrite peu de temps après la publication de ses Réflexions philosophiques et théologiques contre le Traité de la nature et de la grâce de Malebranche, dans lesquelles il critique la manière dont l'oratorien rend compte de la nature et de l'étendue de la providence divine. Or, bien que les premiers échanges entre Arnauld et Leibniz semblent privilégier la question de la liberté divine, l…
Spinoza and Medieval Jewish Philosophy
The Lives of Others
Spinoza and Scripture
Spinoza and Scripture:A Colloquium Introduction Steven Nadler Bertrand Russell, in his History of Western Philosophy, calls Spinoza "the noblest and the most lovable of the great philosophers."1 To my mind, he is also the most maddening . . . but in a good way. You read Spinoza, you think you know him, and then you read him again and realize how much you simply did not get. The scholarly humiliation is compounded each time one picks up the notori…
Scripture and Truth
Three articles, by Steven Nadler, Carlos Fraenkel, and Warren Zev Harvey, constitute a "symposium" on a particular set of issues in Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise: how to reconcile Spinoza's account of the interpretation of Scripture (and the distinction between truth and meaning) with some remarks he says about miraculous events as related in Scripture
Central Works of Philosophy Volume 2
CENTRAL WORKS OF PHILOSOPHY is a multi-volume set of essays on the core texts of the western philosophical tradition. From Plato's Republic to the present day, the volumes range over 2,500 years of philosophical writing covering the best, most representative, and most influential work of some of our greatest philosophers. Each essay has been specially commissioned and provides an overview of the work and clear and authoritative exposition of its …
Occasionalism
Occasionalism
This book is a collection of essays on the problem of causation in seventeenth-century philosophy. Occasionalism is the doctrine, held by a number of early modern Cartesian thinkers, that created substances are devoid of any true causal powers, and that God is the only real causal agent in the universe. All natural phenomena have God as their direct and immediate cause, with natural things and their states serving only as “occasions” for God to a…
Occasionalism and General Will in Malebranche
This chapter is an examination of the details of Malebranche’s account of divine activity in his occasionalism, and in particular his notion of divine general volitions. Contrary to a reading first offered by Arnauld in his correspondence with Leibniz, according to which Malebranche’s God acts by way of volitions with general content (or laws), this chapter argues that Malebranche’s God acts constantly and ubiquitously in nature by way of volitio…
Louis de la Forge and the Development of Occasionalism
The Occasionalism of Louis de la Forge
Louis de La Forge and the Development of Occasionalism
Louis de La Forge and the Development of Occasionalism: Continuous Creation and the Activity of the Soul Steven Nadler the doctrine of divine conservation is a dangerous one. It is not theologically dangerous, at least not in itself. From the thirteenth century onwards, and particularly with the Summa Theologiae of St. Thomas, the notion of the continuous divine sustenance of the world of created things was, if not universally accepted, a nonethe…
Spinoza and Menasseh ben Israel
An examination of what has been claimed about the relationship between the seventeenth-century philosopher Bento (Benedictus) Spinoza and Menasseh ben Israel, a rabbi of the Amsterdam Portuguese-Jewish community. The article shows that, despite claims by scholars that Menasseh was Spinoza's teacher and intellectual mentor, in fact there is no evidence for the former claim, and much evidence that the two men were, intellectually, diametrically opp…
The Jewish Spinoza
The seventeenth-century Dutch-Jewish philosopher, Baruch Spinoza, was expelled from the Amsterdam Portuguese- Jewish community when he was a young man, and in his philosophy he adopts a critical, even hostile attitude toward sectarian religions. Scholars have debated the extent to which Spinoza's thought, despite his own fraught relationship to Judaism, belongs to the history of Jewish philosophy. This review article looks at various trends in sc…
Gersonides on Providence
The notion of the "general will" has proven to be one of the more influential and at the same time enduringly perplexing concepts in the history of ideas. Its most famous appearance is of course, in Rousseau's political philosophy as the expression, ideally embodied in the sovereign's commands, of what is in the common or public interest. The general will (la volonté générale) is, Rousseau says, the will of "the body of the people," that is, "the…
Arnauld, Descartes, and Transubstantiation
God created the world for two reasons..., one, to provide an idea of his greatness; the other, to depict invisible things in the visible. M. Descartes has destroyed the one as well as the other. The sun is a lovely piece of work, one says to him. Not at all, he replies, it is a mass of metal filings. Instead of recognizing invisible things in the visible, such as the God of nature in the sun, and seeing an image of his grace in all that he has pr…
Arnauld, Descartes, and Transubstantiation
God created the world for two reasons..., one, to provide an idea of his greatness; the other, to depict invisible things in the visible. M. Descartes has destroyed the one as well as the other. The sun is a lovely piece of work, one says to him. Not at all, he replies, it is a mass of metal filings. Instead of recognizing invisible things in the visible, such as the God of nature in the sun, and seeing an image of his grace in all that he has pr…
Occult Powers and Hypotheses
Arnauld and the Cartesian Philosophy of Ideas.
Daisie Radner and Michael Radner
Malebranche and the Vision in God
One, and perhaps the most well-known, of Malebranche's arguments for his doctrine of the vision in God is the argument by elimination presented in The Search After Truth, Book Three, Part Two, chapters 2-6.1 Malebranche there enumerates what he takes to be exhaustive classification of the possible ways in which ideas (idees)-immaterial representative beings-could be made present to the human mind. He then proceeds to demonstrate the incoherence o…
The Light of the Soul
Arnauld and the Cartesian Philosophy of Ideas
De summa rerum
Thought's Ego in Augustine and Descartes
The Cartesian Empiricism of Francois Bayle . Thomas M. Lennon , Patricia Ann Easton The Battle of the Gods and Giants
Choosing a Theodicy
L'A. etudie la relation entretenue par Malebranche et Leibniz, en mettant egalement en relief la figure intermediaire d'Arnauld, et il compare leurs theodicees
The Rise of Modern Philosophy
Malebranche and Ideas
Occasionalism and the mind-body problem
One of the more popular myths in the traditional account of the development of metaphysics in the seventeenth century regards the genesis and historico¬ philosophical significance of the doctrine of occasionalism, or the theory that God alone is a true causal agent, in whose operations qua causa are included all the phenomena of nature. According to the story usually told, some early modern thinkers, committed to Descartes’s philosophy, and to mi…
Perception and Reality
Descartes's Demon and the Madness of Don Quixote
Descartes’s Demon and the Madness of Don Quixote Steven Nadler Descartes’s “malicious demon” (genius malignus, le mauvais génie)—the evil deceiver of the Meditations on First Philosophy whose hypothetical existence threatens to undermine radically Descartes’s confidence in his cognitive f aculties—is an artful philosophical and literary device. There is considerable debate over the significance of this powerful and malevolent being within Descart…
Louis de La Forge and the Development of Occasionalism
Louis de La Forge and the Development of Occasionalism: Continuous Creation and the Activity of the Soul Steven Nadler the doctrine of divine conservation is a dangerous one. It is not theologically dangerous, at least not in itself. From the thirteenth century onwards, and particularly with the Summa Theologiae of St. Thomas, the notion of the continuous divine sustenance of the world of created things was, if not universally accepted, a nonethe…
Spinoza
Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677) was one of the most important philosophers of all time; he was also arguably the most radical and controversial. This was the first complete biography of Spinoza in any language and is based on detailed archival research. More than simply recounting the story of Spinoza's life, the book takes the reader right into the heart of Jewish Amsterdam in the seventeenth century and, with Spinoza's exile from Judaism, right into…
The Cambridge companion to Malebranche
Malebranche on Causation
Questions about the nature of causality occupy a rather central place in early modern philosophy. There had been, of course, a concern with causality in ancient philosophy (especially Aristotle) and in medieval thought (particularly in the sacramental context). However, the topic took on even greater urgency in the seventeenth century. In large measure, this was due to a problem specific to the period: how to reconcile an emerging scientific view…
Spinoza. A Life
Gersonides on Providence
The notion of the "general will" has proven to be one of the more influential and at the same time enduringly perplexing concepts in the history of ideas. Its most famous appearance is of course, in Rousseau's political philosophy as the expression, ideally embodied in the sovereign's commands, of what is in the common or public interest. The general will (la volonté générale) is, Rousseau says, the will of "the body of the people," that is, "the…
A Companion to Early Modern Philosophy
A Companion to Early Modern Philosophy
A companion to early modern philosophy
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