Een boek dat nog eens de aparte positie van Spinoza laat zien
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Spinoza komt uiteraard weer wel aan de orde in het volgende boek:
Eric Watkins (ed.), The Divine Order, the Human Order, and the Order of Nature: Historical Perspectives, Oxford University Press, 2013, 240pp., $74.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780199934409. books.google
Vandaag in de NDPR, reviewed by John Whipple, University of Illinois at Chicago.
Uit de inhoudsopgave blijkt wie Spinoza behandelt:
Part 1: The Medieval Period
Chapter 1: Powers Versus Laws: God and the Order of the World According to Some Late Medieval Aristotelians - Marilyn McCord Adams
Chapter 2: The Order of Nature and Moral Luck: Maimonides on Divine Providence - Steven Nadler
Part 2: The Early Modern Period
Chapter 3: God, Laws, and the Order of Nature: Descartes and Leibniz, Hobbes and Spinoza - Daniel Garber
Chapter 4: Malebranche's Causal Concepts - Robert Merrihew Adams
Chapter 5: Laws and Order: Malebranche, Berkeley, Hume - Tad Schmaltz
Chapter 6: Laws of Nature in Seventeenth-Century England: From Cambridge Platonism to Newtonianism - Peter Harrison
Chapter 7: Laws and Powers in Leibniz - Donald Rutherford
Chapter 8: Change in the Monad - Martha Brandt Bolton
Part 3: Kant
Chapter 9: Rational Hope, Moral Order, and the Revolution of the Will - Andrew Chignell
Chapter 10: Kant on the Natural, Moral, Human, and Divine Order - Eric Watkins
Dat 3e hoofdstuk van Daniel Garber vat de reviewer alsvolgt samen (en praat hij netjes de inleiding na):
"In "God, Laws, and the Order of Nature: Descartes and Leibniz, Hobbes and Spinoza," Daniel Garber explores the question of what happens to the order of nature when the idea of a transcendent God is rejected. For Descartes the laws of nature are grounded in divine immutability and the nature of God's conservation of the universe. For Leibniz the laws of nature are grounded in divine wisdom and God's choice of the best. Hobbes and Spinoza, on the other hand, do not appeal to God to ground the laws of nature. For these two thinkers -- though the details of their views differ in important ways -- nature is ordered by general principles that are on par with the truths of geometry."
Grappig toch, als eenmaal de transcendente God verworpen is, heb je helemaal geen God meer - hoeveel Spinoza ook van God spreekt, hij heeft verloren - zijn Godsidee wordt niet serieus genomen. Hoewel, de inleider vat Spinoza's positie als volgt samen:
"Spinoza fundamentally transformed the divine order by rejecting the existence of a transcendent God who would act for final ends in favor of a God who exists entirely within nature and acts according to the necessity of his nature; as a result, the natural and the divine orders coincide and the moral and human orders are redefined accordingly." [p. xxvii]
Books.google laat het gedeelte over Spinoza in Daniel Garber's 3e hoofdstuk grotendeels lezen: van 57 t/m 63 (loopt nog door t/m 66)
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Worldcat laat zien welke universiteitsbibliotheken het boek al hebben aangeschaft.
