Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
Purchase Benefits
What is included with this book?
Translator's Introduction | p. xv |
Preface | p. xxi |
Zoön and Bios | |
Living and Knowing: Social Images and Scholarly Discourses | p. 3 |
Differences and Continuity | p. 11 |
Toward a Genealogy of Ethics | p. 17 |
Pleasure and Pain: The First Level of Ethics | p. 17 |
The Myth of Adam's Fall and "True Knowledge of Good and Evil" | p. 21 |
The Concerns of Moral Philosophy | p. 22 |
From the First Level to the Second Level | p. 30 |
The Third Level: Theoretical Deduction or Argumentation Genealogy | p. 32 |
Modified States of Consciousness and the Sacred | p. 36 |
Argumentation Ethics and Underdetermination | p. 39 |
The Morality of Indignation | p. 43 |
A Schematic Representation | p. 45 |
The Subject and Time | |
A Natural Subject in the Fourteenth Century? | |
Hasdai Crescas on Determinism and Responsibility | p. 49 |
Return of the Subject or Final Death? A Third Term | p. 49 |
Hasdai Crescas, Determinism, and Freedom | p. 54 |
Determined but Responsible | p. 63 |
A Priori Responsibility and Factum Responsibility | p. 66 |
"Subject of" and "Subject to" | p. 71 |
Crescas and Spinoza: "God's Joy" | p. 74 |
Reality, Perfection, and "Glory" | p. 78 |
"By Reality and Perfection I Understand the Same Thing" | p. 78 |
Reality as Perfection and Perfection as a Model | p. 78 |
Wisdom and Perfection | p. 87 |
Toward Acquiescence and Joy: Provisional Morality and Habit | p. 95 |
Acquiescence and "Gloria" | p. 99 |
Human Dignity | p. 103 |
"Glory" | p. 105 |
Gloria/Kavod in Scripture and in Spinoza | p. 105 |
Human Perfection according to Maimonides | p. 108 |
Revisiting Gloria/Kavod in the Sacred Books, according to Spinoza's Ethics | p. 112 |
The Third Kind of Knowledge | p. 117 |
Wisdom(s) | p. 119 |
The God of Persons and the From of the Human Body | p. 125 |
Who or What? | p. 125 |
The Form | p. 127 |
The Human Body, the Subject of the Rights of Man | p. 134 |
The Problems of Limits at the Start and End of Human Life | p. 135 |
The Pragmatism of Talmudic Law | p. 138 |
"I" Is the Tetragrammaton | p. 141 |
The God of the Philosophers, and the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob | p. 144 |
The Unique Person and His or Her God | p. 147 |
The Voices of Prophecy Reflected on Themselves | p. 152 |
An Absolute Singular? | p. 155 |
What Am I? | p. 156 |
Idolatry Does Not Have to Be Pagan | p. 162 |
The Radical Monism of Body and Mind | |
A Spinozist Perspective on Evolution and the Theory of Action: from Analytic Philosophy to Spinoza | p. 167 |
Immanent Causality and Temporal Evolution | p. 167 |
Spinoza's Physics and Spinoza's Animism | p. 171 |
The Synthetic Identity of Properties | p. 176 |
Synthetic Identity, Referential Opacity, and the Underdetermination of Theories | p. 177 |
Action and Perception: The Anomalous Monism of Donald Davidson | p. 180 |
Action and Perception in the Light of Spinoza's Monism | p. 185 |
The Analogy with Physical Magnitudes | p. 188 |
Functional Self-Organization | p. 190 |
Moral Judgment | p. 193 |
Some Astonishing Neurophysiological Findings | p. 195 |
Intentional Self-Organization: Toward a Physical Theory of Intentionality | p. 197 |
Intention as Ex Nihilio Creation? | p. 197 |
Self-Organization Is Not an Ex Nihilo Causa Sui | p. 200 |
Is a Physical Theory of Intentionality Possible? | p. 203 |
Physical and Chemical Reductionism and Phenomenological Reduction | p. 204 |
Meaningless Complexity in the Information Sciences | p. 205 |
"Sophistication" as a Measurement of Meaningful Complexity | p. 210 |
Intentional Self-Organization | p. 212 |
The Origin of Goals and the Types of Self-Organization | p. 212 |
The Transformation of a Causal Sequence into a Procedure | p. 214 |
A Non-Intentional Model of Intentional Behavior | p. 215 |
Time Reversal | p. 215 |
A Satisfaction Function and Its Origin | p. 216 |
A Non-Intentional Model of Intentional Attitudes | p. 218 |
Consciousness-Memory and Unconscious Self-Organization | p. 219 |
Infinite Sophistication | p. 220 |
Provisional Conclusions | p. 224 |
Action and Perception | p. 224 |
The Underdetermination of Theories and Intersubjectivity | p. 225 |
Modeling the Models? The Transcendental Nature of Logic and Ethics | p. 226 |
Reason and Common Notions | p. 227 |
Time and Eternity | |
Statistics and Temporality | p. 231 |
The Use and Misuse of Statistics and Probability: A Brief Review | p. 231 |
Misinterpretations in Medicine and Biology | p. 232 |
Correlation and Causation | p. 236 |
Retrospective and Prospective Studies | p. 236 |
Correlation (Strong or Weak) Does Not Mean Causality | p. 238 |
The Analysis of Variance and the Endless Debate about the Innate versus the Acquired | p. 240 |
Heritability Is Not a Measure of Genetic Influence | p. 241 |
The Hypothesis of Additivity | p. 242 |
Paradoxes of the Possible and Probabilities: Time versus Eternity | p. 244 |
The Monty Hall Problem, or Marilyn and the Goats | p. 244 |
Fermat's Strictures and Pascal's "Mistakes": Equal Odds When Throwing Dice | p. 248 |
Beliefs and Waters | p. 254 |
Memory of Ritual, Metaphor of Fertilization | p. 257 |
To Remember and Not Forget | p. 257 |
Generations | p. 260 |
Past and Future: The Conversive Vav | p. 261 |
The Origins | p. 263 |
New Years, Memory, and Fertilization | p. 267 |
The Time of Ritual: Conceiving a Memory | p. 269 |
"The Vision and Riddle" … that "the Mouth Cannot Utter and the Ear Cannot Hear" | p. 270 |
Underground History or Carnival? | p. 273 |
The Letter of the Spirit | |
The So-Called Chosen People … | p. 279 |
A False Start: The Antisemitic Question | p. 279 |
The Treason of Words and Their Improper Usage | p. 282 |
What Does the Bible Say? | p. 285 |
A Chosen People Like All the Others | p. 287 |
There Is Nothing Special about the Essence of the People of Israel | p. 290 |
Creating "Chosen Souls" | p. 292 |
Understanding Another Imaginary | p. 294 |
Where Is the Confusion? | p. 297 |
The Election of "the Smallest of Peoples" | p. 298 |
"Atheist" Theologies | p. 300 |
The Tribe and the Humanity in Each Individual | p. 300 |
A Tribal God in the Wilderness | p. 302 |
Telecommunications to the Planetary God | p. 303 |
Neither "Race" nor "Chosen People" … | p. 305 |
The Question of the State | p. 306 |
Maimonides then and Now | p. 309 |
Science and Philosophy in the Twelfth Century | p. 309 |
The Bodily Forms of God | p. 310 |
The Face or Category of "In Front Of" | p. 312 |
"The Eyes of YHWH" | p. 313 |
Generosity and Rigor | p. 315 |
Speculative Kabbalah and Modernity | p. 317 |
Seeing and Speaking | p. 318 |
Philosophy and Prophecy | p. 320 |
"Practical Faith" | p. 323 |
The Idolatry of History | p. 327 |
Levels of Meaning and the Atheism of Scripture | p. 329 |
The Crowns on the Letters | p. 329 |
The Meanings of a Bottle Found in the Ocean | p. 331 |
The "Garden" and Its Four Levels | p. 335 |
Peshat: The Literal, Plain, or Obvious Sense | p. 337 |
Remez: The Allusive Meaning | p. 337 |
Derash: The "Allegorical" Meaning | p. 339 |
The Hermeneutic Situation: Absence Postulated a Priori | p. 341 |
Sod: The Hidden or Esoteric Sense | p. 341 |
The White Space in the Text | p. 344 |
The Name and Its Interpretations | p. 346 |
Words of God and the Atheism of Scripture | p. 348 |
Sources | p. 353 |
Index | p. 355 |
Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved. |
The New copy of this book will include any supplemental materials advertised. Please check the title of the book to determine if it should include any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.
The Used, Rental and eBook copies of this book are not guaranteed to include any supplemental materials. Typically, only the book itself is included. This is true even if the title states it includes any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.