{"product_id":"everything-in-its-right-place-spinoza-and-life-by-the-light-of-nature-hardcover","title":"Everything in Its Right Place: Spinoza and Life by the Light of Nature - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoseph Almog\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eEverything in Its Right Place\u003c\/em\u003e, Joseph Almog develops the unitarian and universalist metaphysics of Spinoza. Spinoza's ground zero thesis is that \"Nature is one and all.\" Everything (including God, mathematics, morals, our own thoughts) finds its place within Spinoza's (capital N) Nature. It is the place that each thing occupies within the grid of Nature-from God on down the cosmic tree of being-that determines its fundamental (lowercase n) nature. For Spinoza, one's nature is determined by one's place in Nature or, in terms of the fundamental axiom of the book-\u003cem\u003ethe Nature-unfolding axiom\u003c\/em\u003e: the nature of x=Nature at x. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlmog's reading of Spinoza is distinct in its understanding of the deductive abstractions of part I-II of the \u003cem\u003eEthics\u003c\/em\u003e by means of the concrete illustrations of Spinoza's \u003cem\u003eintended subject matter \u003c\/em\u003ein his political writings, where he tells us directly (i) what Nature is and (ii) how man's nature is not a separate kingdom from the Nature-kingdom but merely an unfolding of it. This leads, as in the \u003cem\u003eEthics\u003c\/em\u003e, to a final chapter on what it meant to Spinoza to live in symbiosis with Nature and, therefore, to be one with it-and with God.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJoseph Almog \u003c\/strong\u003eis the author of \u003cem\u003eReferential Mechanics \u003c\/em\u003e(forthcoming), \u003cem\u003eCogito: Descartes and Thinking the World \u003c\/em\u003e(2008), \u003cem\u003eWhat Am I? Descartes and the Mind-Body Problem \u003c\/em\u003e(2001) and co-editor of \u003cem\u003eEssays on Reference, Language, and Mind \u003c\/em\u003eby Keith Donellan (2012), \u003cem\u003eHaving in Mind: The Philosophy of Keith Donnellan\u003c\/em\u003e (2012), and \u003cem\u003eThe Philosophy of David Kaplan\u003c\/em\u003e (2009) -- all from Oxford University Press.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 160\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.3 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 14, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42039633903696,"sku":"9780199314393","price":162.61,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/9540\/0016\/files\/RGNMR2FiOEJpcE1nUG5ObnhJdm1IZz09.webp?v=1771841631","url":"https:\/\/palm-malen-gift-shop-pmrc.myshopify.com\/products\/everything-in-its-right-place-spinoza-and-life-by-the-light-of-nature-hardcover","provider":"Palm Malen Gift Shop -PMRC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}