Between Sucession and Simultaneity: The Causality in F.H. Jacobi
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Causality, Eternity, Imagination, Reason, God.Abstract
This paper aims to analyze the way which Jacobi in his work David Hume über den Glauben oder Idealismus und Realismus (1787) uses Spinoza’s argumentation in an attempt to solve the skeptical question introduced by David Hume, about the casual bind between different beings. Rejecting the Kant’s solution by pure reason, he finds out an answer in the spinozian notion of reason. Through this, it is possible to deduce a universally valid concept of causality from the physical space, in response to the imagination, scope in which lies the falsity, inasmuch as it does not reach the totality of causal relations in the eternity as Spinoza conceives. To both philosophers, therefore, the actuality sets in a simultaneous whole, and the succession, a mere ilusion. However, the agreement ends when Jacobi understands the origin of the experience as matter of faith, and asserts a transcendent God as the origin and fundament of life which embrace subject, object and the relation of them. Something totally different from that immanence which Spinoza conceives in his Ethica More Geometrico Demonstrata (1677).Downloads
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