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Philosophy of Sciences

2019 year, number 1

SPINOZA ON THE PLACE, SPECIFICITY AND SUBJECT OF HUMAN INTELLECTUAL INTUITION

Vasiliy Pavlovich Goran
Institute of Philosophy and Law, Siberian Branch of the Russian Akademy of Sciences, 8, Nikolaev st., Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
Keywords: Спиноза, интеллектуальная интуиция, рассудок, воображение, общее, единичное, отдельное, Spinoza, intellectual intuition, reason, imagination, the general, the individual, the separate

Abstract

The article considers peculiar properties of the terminology used by Spinoza when justifying the hierarchy of levels of human cognitive activity which he approved. The author analyzes grounds for Spinoza’s recognition of the advantages of intellectual intuition over the other two considered levels - imagination and reason. It is revealed that Spinoza’s attention to the individually unique as determining the subject-substantive specificity of intellectual intuition did not mean that he completely refused to take into account that, in addition to the individually unique in real objects and situations perceived at the same time, there is the common which is also recognized to be significant. It is established that Spinoza actually catches and takes into account in a peculiar way an inherently dialectical relationship between the general, the individual and the separate, recognizing that in reality there exist independently only the separate as a unity of the general and the individually unique.