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Spinoza's Geometry of Power
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Product Description: This work examines the unique way in which Benedict de Spinoza (1632-77) combines two significant philosophical principles: that real existence requires causal power and that geometrical objects display exceptionally clearly how things have properties in virtue of their essences...read more
By Valtteri Viljanen
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9781107007802 | Cambridge Univ Pr, November 21, 2011, cover price $99.99

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9781107417380 | Reprint edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, June 12, 2014), cover price $44.99 | About this edition: This work examines the unique way in which Benedict de Spinoza (1632-77) combines two significant philosophical principles: that real existence requires causal power and that geometrical objects display exceptionally clearly how things have properties in virtue of their essences.

The World As Active Power: Studies in the History of European Reason
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Product Description: What is the ultimate explanatory factor for the existence of the world, for all its changing phenomena and the enduring order found in it? In the history of Western thought, we can find a longstanding philosophical tendency to answer this question in terms of power: the universe is understood as an ordered whole produced by a rational power, that is, by the power of reason...read more
By Juhani Pietarinen (editor) and Valtteri Viljanen (editor)
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9789004177123 | Brill Academic Pub, September 15, 2009, cover price $150.00 | About this edition: What is the ultimate explanatory factor for the existence of the world, for all its changing phenomena and the enduring order found in it?

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