Rose Armed with Thorns: Spinoza’s Philosophy Under a Novel Lens

Amihud Gilead was born in Jerusalem in 1947. He is a Professor Emeritus at the Department of philosophy, the University of Haifa. For many years, his main research was devoted to the study of the history of philosophy, especially of early modern philosophy. From 1999 till now he introduced and has elaborated on an original modal metaphysics, panenmentalism, which is a special kind of possibilist realism about individual pure (non-actual) possibilities. Professor Gilead published various books and papers, most of them in English.

• 1. Substance as the Systematic Unity of the Necessary Plurality.- 2. The Status of Individual Things in Spinoza’s Substance.- 3. The Truth Conditions and the Problem of the Attributes.- 4. The First Grade of Knowledge—Imaginatio.- 5. The Second Grade of Knowledge (Ratio) and its Limitations.- 6. The Supreme Grade of Knowledge.- 7. The Desired System as a Goal Laying the Horizon.