Titlebook: An Examination of the Singular in Maimonides and Spinoza; Prophecy, Intellect, Norman L. Whitman Book 2020 The Editor(s) (if applicable) an

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-88742-9philosophers. The singular is defined as the non-discursive and unique expression of complete perfection. The introduction briefly presents previous scholars’ attempts to address and understand the singular in Maimonides’ and Spinoza’s works. In contrast to these views, my interpretation enables us

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,Faden-, Spro?- und Schimmelpilze,f every virtuous leader to address the material and imaginative conditions of their citizens in order to develop a unified, stable political association. Rather than being naturally disposed to reason, political subjects have primarily unrestrained affects and imaginations that must be coordinated e

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Die pathologische Anatomie der Hirnbasis,f reason in relation to embodiment. Rather than dismissing metaphysical and rational language as wholly useless for embodied knowers, the chapter presents reason as a useful and necessary tool for structuring experience through which one may achieve actual concrete knowledge and the good. As a resul

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Book 2020concerned with the singular perfection of the complete human being rather than with attaining only rational knowledge. Complete perfection of a human being expresses the unique concord of concrete activities, such as ethics, politics, and psychology, with reason. The necessity of concrete historical

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-88742-9amples of how singular perfection expresses itself in specific philosophical topics addressed by both Maimonides and Spinoza, such as prophecy, knowledge, political authority, epistemic method, and language.

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-88742-9agination and reason so that intellect is generated. This inclusion of concrete activities entails that singular knowledge and perfection, rather than aiming solely at the cognition of metaphysical truths, must focus on the complete individual, including ethical and political conditions.