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16Staring Into the Void: Spinoza, Master of NihilismUniversity of Delaware. 2009.Drawing extensively on the whole range of Spinoza’s philosophical writing, Staring into the Void devotes twelve chapters to showing in detail how the architecture of reality as Spinoza saw it rises in stages from a theory of being to prophetically modern theories of the physical world, of causal law, of perceptual and intuitive knowledge, of determinism, of the roots of human motivation, and of the kinds of civil society that human nature is capable of sustaining. Professor Skulsky tries to disa…Read more
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30Literature and philosophy: The common groundJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 27 (2): 183-197. 1968.
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51Paduan epistemology and the doctrine of the one mindJournal of the History of Philosophy 6 (4): 341-361. 1968.
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15Pain, Law, and Conscience in Measure for MeasureJournal of the History of Ideas 25 (2): 147. 1964.
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4Spirits Finely Touched: The Testing of Value and Integrity in Four Shakespearean PlaysAthens : University of Georgia Press. 1976.Armed with a fresh analysis of Shakespeare's inherited resources for articulating anxieties rooted in philosophical doubt, Skulsky shows that in four plays—Hamlet, Measure for Measure, King Lear, and Othello—the drama of doubt in search of an exit gives its own kind of urgency to the more familiar Shakespearean drama of action and motive. From Skulsky's study, the four plays emerge as insidiously telling exercises in challenging our working faith in the objectivity of moral choice and the possib…Read more
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