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121. - Metaphysical Thoughts

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 January 2025

By
Daniel Moerner
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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The Cogitata Metaphysica is an appendix to Spinoza’s 1663 DPP, his first published work and textbook on Descartes’s philosophy. The first part discusses general metaphysics, that is, being and its affections. The second part discusses special metaphysics, that is, specific kinds of being, including God and human beings. Although the work was an appendix to a Cartesian work, its structure is also a reflection of the influence of handbooks of Dutch Scholasticism by Burgersdijk and Heereboord.

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The Cambridge Spinoza Lexicon , pp. 348 - 349
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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Gartenberg, Z. (2021). Spinoza on relations. In Melamed, Y. (ed.), A Companion to Spinoza (pp. 179–88). Wiley-Blackwell.Google Scholar
Hübner, K. (2015). Spinoza on essences, universals, and beings of reason. Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 97, 58–88.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Jaquet, C. (ed.). (2004). Les Pensées métaphysiques de Spinoza. Publications de la Sorbonne.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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