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134. - Negation and Privation

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 January 2025

By
Martin Lenz
Edited by
Karolina Hübner  and
Justin Steinberg
Karolina Hübner
Affiliation:
Cornell University, New York
Justin Steinberg
Affiliation:
Cornell University, New York
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Summary

Negation is often taken as a logical operation in statements. We can negate by stating that something is not the case or that something is not or not thus and so. In various philosophical traditions, however, negation can be seen not only as a logical (or psychological or linguistic) operation, but also as a metaphysical determinant. Spinoza’s understanding of negation invokes all these aspects.

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The Cambridge Spinoza Lexicon , pp. 387 - 388
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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Hübner, K. (2015). Spinoza on negation, mind-dependence, and reality of the finite. In Melame, Y. d (ed.), The Young Spinoza: A Metaphysician in the Making (pp. 221–37). Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Melamed, Y. (2012). ‘Omnis determinatio est negatio’: Determination, negation, and self-negation in Spinoza, Kant, and Hegel. In Förster, E. and Melamed, Y. (eds.), Spinoza and German Idealism (pp. 175–96). Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Winkler, S. (2016). The problem of generation and destruction in Spinoza’s system. Journal of Early Modern Philosophy, 5(1), 89–113.Google Scholar

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