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Kierkegaard, Eve and Metaphors of Birth By Alison Assiter London/New York: Rowan and Littlefield, 2015, pp.213, £24.95 ISBN: 9781783483259

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 September 2015

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Philosophy , Volume 91 , Issue 2 , April 2016 , pp. 285 - 289
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References

1 De Augmentis Scientiarum, Bk III, Ch 5.

2 Spinoza claims to reject final causes, but to my mind he is best understood as wishing to reject the picture according to which teleology is externally imposed upon a purposeless nature by God, and that nature itself has an external goal.

3 ‘Kenōsis and Subversion’, 35.

4 Ibid ., 315. The extract is from Divine Names, IV.13–15. The emphasis is Coakley's.

5 These matters and more are discussed in John Hawthorne's and Daniel Nolan's fascinating ‘What Would Teleological Causation Be?’, in John Hawthorne's Metaphysical Essays (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), 265–284.