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Contents ......Page 6 1. Introduction ......Page 9 PART I: Causation and Power ......Page 15 2.1. The key tenets ......Page 16 2.2. The final, the material, and the efficient cause ......Page 18 2.3. Su?rez on formal cause and emanation ......Page 21 2.4. Spinoza, formal causality, and geometry ......Page 28 2.5. Spinoza and the essentialist model of causation ......Page 35 3.1.1. Scholastics on substantial form and power ......Page 47 3.1.2. Descartes and the problem of power ......Page 49 3.2. The general position of the concept of power in Spinoza’s system ......Page 53 4.1. Power introduced as power of existing ......Page 65 4.2. Existing "in itself in Descartes and Spinoza ......Page 66 4.2.1. "From itself’ in Descartes ......Page 67 4.2.2. "In itself’ and Spinoza’s God ......Page 68 4.2.3. Finite things’ power to exist in itself ......Page 70 4.2.4. God’s omnipotence and finite things’ power ......Page 73 5.1. Spinoza on activity and passivity ......Page 76 5.1.1. Spinoza’s definition of action and passion ......Page 77 5.1.2. The historical context of Spinoza’s definition ......Page 78 5.1.3. Problems in interpreting Spinoza’s definition ......Page 82 5.2. Agendipotenth and

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Author

Valtteri Viljanen

Publisher

University of Turku

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9789512933419

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Science, Physics