The philosophical God of Spinoza is branded as a pantheistic God so often that, regarding at least Western philosophy and philosophical commentaries, Spinozism seems to be practically synonymous with ...pantheism. Since the times of German idealism, there have also been attempts at a panentheistic reading, which are still alive to this day. The article analyses both theological models in their core claims to adequately qualify Spinoza’s theological system while considering the established levels of philosophical-theological interpretation. By identifying systemic pantheism and essentialist panentheism in his system, it is argued that both accounts or readings of Spinoza’s theory might be correct in their own way, provided that the models behind them are correctly applied to their respective levels of thought.
The study deals with the matter of three of the most puzzling doctrines of Baruch Spinoza’s system, the so-called ‘final doctrines’, which are intuitive knowledge, intellectual love of God, and the ...eternity of the (human) mind. Contrary to many commentators, but also in concordance with many others, this account strives to affirm the utmost importance of these doctrines to Spinoza’s system as a whole, but mostly to his ethical theory. Focusing specifically on the cultivation of the human mind, the paper offers partial analyses of the central notions of these doctrines and their conceptual contexts. It is argued that the cultivation of the human mind, i.e., its determination to its perfect activity, should be considered as Spinoza’s ultimate ethical goal, and that the mind truly only advances to this goal by means of these cognitive, affective, and intellectual transformations of thinking.
The present article deals with specific normative concepts of Spinoza’s ethical system and compares them to certain aspects of the theory of ethics of social consequences. At first, a way to approach ...the problem of normativity in Spinoza is presented, concentrating on the obligatory character of rational - or intellectual - motives. Then, theoretical evidence is presented which links Spinoza to normative-ethical consequentialism. The basis for a consequentialist model of Spinoza’s ethics is the concept of perfection, and on this basis it seems possible to consider its compatibility with non-utilitarian forms of consequentialism, such as ethics of social consequences. Conclusively, the paper’s aim is to present the possibility of considering Spinozian consequentialism as a non-utilitarian consequentialism, while considering ethics of social consequences as a contemporary form of Spinozian consequentialism.
Svetový deň filozofie UNESCO na Slovensku PETRUFOVÁ JOPPOVÁ, MICHAELA; Komenská, Katarína; Marchevský, Ondrej
Annales scientia politica,
2018, Letnik:
7, Številka:
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Journal Article
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Otázky filozofie, etiky a aplikovanej etiky bývajú často predmetom akademických diskusií a sú súčasťou študijných programov, vedeckých konferencií, kolokvií a kongresov. Tieto témy ale zohrávajú ...dôležitú úlohu aj mimo akademického sveta, a to s konkrétnymi presahmi do života spoločenského, kultúrneho, vzdelávacieho, či politického. Aj z toho dôvodu je od roku 2005 vyhlásený Svetový deň filozofie, ktorého oslavu UNESCO stanovuje každoročne na tretí novembrový štvrtok. Katedra bioetiky UNESCO na FF PU v Prešove sa aj tento rok podujala zorganizovať takúto oslavu filozofie pod názvom UNESCO Philosophy Day/Night. Aj týmto podujatím sa pokúsila priblížiť širšej slovenskej verejnosti rolu filozofie, etiky a estetiky, ktorú od nepamäti zohrávajú v rozvoji ľudskej kultúry a ducha.
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