著者

上野 修

出版者

日本哲学会

雑誌

哲学 (ISSN:03873358)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.2006, no.57, pp.77-92,5, 2006

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Spinoza's system, startling indeed with its strange appearance-<I>Deus seu Natura</I>, or God as the immanent cause of everything-, will be made more understandable if we consider it as a systematic attempt of nailing down a necessitarian concept of truth and existence. I shall examine his denial of contingent truth in the <I>Tractatus intellectus emendatione</I> which is closely related to Cartesian idea of certainty, and show how it brings Spinoza to the concept of the <I>omne esse</I>, the whole Being, where truth, existence and actuality are all flattened out into one reality <I>sub specie aeternitatis</I>. After reconstructing from a modal point of view the theory of human knowledge in the <I>Ethica</I>, I shall briefly discuss a strong notion of actuality Spinozan idea of necessity might convey, together with its ethical import.