Ethics without Self, Dharma without Atman by Gordon F. Davis

Author:Gordon F. Davis
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9783319674070
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

35For more detail on this, and also on Herder’s moral philosophy, see Sikka (2011) .

36Sikka (2011) stresses that this could not be the Kantian notion of rationality (if indeed that is an apt term at all here), but meanwhile also stresses the role of benevolence in Herder’s ethics .

37We have left it open whether any ‘Weltgeist ’ monism of the kind endorsed by thinkers such as Goethe could accurately be attributed to Spinoza ; we also left it open, in section II, whether Spinoza’s metaphysics can rightly be seen as resulting in some sort of anti-realism about individuals (debunking diachronic identity in particular). In n. 19, we noted the ‘subjectivist’ interpretation of Spinoza, which is anti-realist about distinctions between attributes, but could be extended to an anti-realism about finite modes (including individual persons). By exploring post-Kantian idealism , we can now see the significance of that interpretation; i.e. even if it did not fit everything Spinoza wrote, it nonetheless became an important variety of Spinozism in this period, when Buddhist and other Indian forms of monism were also vindicated, on both ‘Spinozist’ and separate ethical grounds.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.