Necessarily Eternal

... this something that pertains to the essence of the mind will necessarily be eternal ... *

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* Ethics Vp23dem (Curley translation)

PETITION TO KEEP UF's PHILOSOPHY PhD ROGRAM

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UF PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT

THE LEITER REPORTS

# 1,429: 10:11 am PDT, May 12, Felix Sadeli, Florida
I graduated with a BA from UF's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (which the Philosophy Department is part of) back in 1999 and my sense is that up until the budget woes hit home a year or so ago, the College has [sic] been very ambitious in expanding, perhaps to the point of imprudence. I would say, unhappily, that the College does require some trimming, but it is certainly a mistake to do so by cutting off part of the roots. Please reconsider this highly unwise decision.

Borges and Spinoza

Unrequited Sublimations: Borges Reads Spinoza by Prof. Efraín Kristal (Comparative Literature, UCLA).

New Article: "Spinoza's Political Philosophy"

Another entry on Spinoza in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, written by Prof. Justin Steinberg (Colby College, but moving to Brooklyn College, CUNY). Also, an essay by the same author: Spinoza and the Problem of Freedom.

Early and Recent Spinozana

They are available at the Antiquariaat Spinoza Amsterdam.

Allen Wood on Our Domestic "Ultimi Barbarorum"

From the preface of Kantian Ethics by Prof. Allen Wood (Stanford, but moving to Indiana), found in the second to last paragraph:

This book was written mainly in the United States, between 2004 and 2006. The history of this period is a disgraceful one. It feels as if we have been living under a malignant alien occupation. An unelected political regime, representing everything that is worst about American culture, compiled a record of injustice, corruption, and gross incompetence at home, and of numerous and aggravated war crimes abroad. Then it was confirmed in office by another election of dubious legitimacy so that it might continue unrelentingly its monstrous wrongfulness and stupidity. Those with the power to oppose its crimes instead acquiesced in them, or else resisted too late, and too feebly. The very ideas of democracy, community, and human rights are in the process of dying in our civilization - or they are being willfully murdered by those in power and by that segment of the population which supports this regime. All they give us in place of these ideas is the empty words (and plenty of those). People have now perhaps begun to awaken to the situation, but the historical roots of what has happened are sunk deep in political trends of the previous century, and I fear these trends will not be reversed soon or easily. There are references here and there in the book to this dismal history, usually to illustrate arrogance, lying, and egregious violations of right. A few readers of my earlier work have told me they think this sort of thing is inappropriate in a scholarly book. But my worries about appearing "unscholarly" pale next to my shame, which all Americans should feel at having failed to prevent the disastrous course of events.

New Book: "Interpreting Spinoza"

This recently published book is a collection of "critical essays" and edited by Prof. Charlie Huenemann (Utah State).

Spinoza Materials in Germany

The link to Spinoza Gesellschaft on the left column has been updated. Also, check out this extensive Spinoza Bibliography site and this German National Library's catalogue on Spinoza related books.

A Review on "Spinoza's Radical Cartesian Mind"

Prof. Matthew Kisner (South Carolina) writes the review article on the book in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.

A Rough Sketch of "Ethics" I

Prof. Ron Bombardi (Middle Tennessee State) - and his alter ego - maintains a wonderful website which has, among numerous other things, A Sketch of Spinoza's Argument for Substance Monism.

New Article: "Was Spinoza a Liberal?"

Thanks to the author Prof. Grant Havers (Philosophy and Political Studies, Trinity Western) who informed me about the article which can be found in The Political Science Reviewer vol. 36 (2007), 143-174.