A Study of Spinoza's 'Ethics'

A Study of Spinoza's 'Ethics'
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Publisher : CUP Archive
Total Pages : 420
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ISBN-10 : 0521277426
ISBN-13 : 9780521277426
Rating : 4/5 (26 Downloads)

Synopsis A Study of Spinoza's 'Ethics' by : Jonathan Bennett

Spinoza's Book of Life

Spinoza's Book of Life
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Publisher : Yale University Press
Total Pages : 256
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ISBN-10 : 9780300128499
ISBN-13 : 0300128495
Rating : 4/5 (99 Downloads)

Synopsis Spinoza's Book of Life by : Steven B. Smith

Offering a new reading of Spinoza's masterpiece, Smith asserts that the 'Ethics' is a celebration of human freedom and its attendant joys and responsibilities and should be placed among the great founding documents of the Enlightenment.

A Book Forged in Hell

A Book Forged in Hell
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 299
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ISBN-10 : 9780691139890
ISBN-13 : 069113989X
Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Synopsis A Book Forged in Hell by : Steven Nadler

When it appeared in 1670, Baruch Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise was denounced as the most dangerous book ever published. Religious and secular authorities saw it as a threat to faith, social and political harmony, and everyday morality, and its author was almost universally regarded as a religious subversive and political radical who sought to spread atheism throughout Europe. Steven Nadler tells the story of this book: its radical claims and their background in the philosophical, religious, and political tensions of the Dutch Golden Age, as well as the vitriolic reaction these ideas inspired. A vivid story of incendiary ideas and vicious backlash, A Book Forged in Hell will interest anyone who is curious about the origin of some of our most cherished modern beliefs--Jacket p. [2].

Spinoza: Complete Works

Spinoza: Complete Works
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Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Total Pages : 992
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ISBN-10 : 9781603846929
ISBN-13 : 1603846921
Rating : 4/5 (29 Downloads)

Synopsis Spinoza: Complete Works by : Baruch Spinoza

The only complete edition in English of Baruch Spinoza's works, this volume features Samuel Shirley’s preeminent translations, distinguished at once by the lucidity and fluency with which they convey the flavor and meaning of Spinoza’s original texts. Michael L. Morgan provides a general introduction that places Spinoza in Western philosophy and culture and sketches the philosophical, scientific, religious, moral and political dimensions of Spinoza’s thought. Morgan’s brief introductions to each work give a succinct historical, biographical, and philosophical overview. A chronology and index are included.

The God of Spinoza

The God of Spinoza
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 282
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ISBN-10 : 052166585X
ISBN-13 : 9780521665858
Rating : 4/5 (5X Downloads)

Synopsis The God of Spinoza by : Richard Mason

This book is the fullest study in English for many years on the role of God in Spinoza's philosophy. Spinoza has been called both a 'God-intoxicated man' and an atheist, both a pioneer of secular Judaism and a bitter critic of religion. He was born a Jew but chose to live outside any religious community. He was deeply engaged both in traditional Hebrew learning and in contemporary physical science. He identified God with nature or substance: a theme which runs through his work, enabling him to naturalise religion but - equally important - to divinise nature. He emerges not as a rationalist precursor of the Enlightenment but as a thinker of the highest importance in his own right, both in philosophy and in religion.

Spinoza on Nature

Spinoza on Nature
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Total Pages : 362
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015012095553
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Rating : 4/5 (53 Downloads)

Synopsis Spinoza on Nature by : James Collins

Collins' method is to make an internal textual study of Spinoza's doctrine on nature with emphasis on his general model of nature that underlies and gov­erns his arguments on particular issues. Separate chapters are devoted to each of his early writings. Two chapters discuss the Ethics. Collins concludes with a uni­fying view of Spinoza's perspective on nature that has a bearing upon many contemporary philosophical issues.

Spinoza's Geometry of Power

Spinoza's Geometry of Power
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 209
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ISBN-10 : 9781139501460
ISBN-13 : 1139501461
Rating : 4/5 (60 Downloads)

Synopsis Spinoza's Geometry of Power by : Valtteri Viljanen

This work examines the unique way in which Benedict de Spinoza (1632–77) combines two significant philosophical principles: that real existence requires causal power and that geometrical objects display exceptionally clearly how things have properties in virtue of their essences. Valtteri Viljanen argues that underlying Spinoza's psychology and ethics is a compelling metaphysical theory according to which each and every genuine thing is an entity of power endowed with an internal structure akin to that of geometrical objects. This allows Spinoza to offer a theory of existence and of action - human and non-human alike - as dynamic striving that takes place with the same kind of necessity and intelligibility that pertain to geometry. Viljanen's fresh and original study will interest a wide range of readers in Spinoza studies and early modern philosophy more generally.

Spinoza and the Stoics

Spinoza and the Stoics
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Publisher : A&C Black
Total Pages : 160
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ISBN-10 : 0826493939
ISBN-13 : 9780826493934
Rating : 4/5 (39 Downloads)

Synopsis Spinoza and the Stoics by : Firmin DeBrabander

Examines Spinoza's moral and political philosophy and his engagement with Stoicism.

Spinoza's Ethics

Spinoza's Ethics
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 610
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ISBN-10 : 9781108228640
ISBN-13 : 110822864X
Rating : 4/5 (40 Downloads)

Synopsis Spinoza's Ethics by : Yitzhak Y. Melamed

Spinoza's Ethics, published in 1677, is considered his greatest work and one of history's most influential philosophical treatises. This volume brings established scholars together with new voices to engage with the complex system of philosophy proposed by Spinoza in his masterpiece. Topics including identity, thought, free will, metaphysics, and reason are all addressed, as individual chapters investigate the key themes of the Ethics and combine to offer readers a fresh and thought-provoking view of the work as a whole. Written in a clear and accessible style, the volume sets out cutting-edge research that reflects, challenges, and promotes the most recent scholarly advances in the field of Spinoza studies, tackling old issues and bringing to light new subjects for debate.

Spinoza's Religion

Spinoza's Religion
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 288
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ISBN-10 : 9780691224206
ISBN-13 : 069122420X
Rating : 4/5 (06 Downloads)

Synopsis Spinoza's Religion by : Clare Carlisle

A bold reevaluation of Spinoza that reveals his powerful, inclusive vision of religion for the modern age Spinoza is widely regarded as either a God-forsaking atheist or a God-intoxicated pantheist, but Clare Carlisle says that he was neither. In Spinoza’s Religion, she sets out a bold interpretation of Spinoza through a lucid new reading of his masterpiece, the Ethics. Putting the question of religion centre-stage but refusing to convert Spinozism to Christianity, Carlisle reveals that “being in God” unites Spinoza’s metaphysics and ethics. Spinoza’s Religion unfolds a powerful, inclusive philosophical vision for the modern age—one that is grounded in a profound questioning of how to live a joyful, fully human life. Like Spinoza himself, the Ethics doesn’t fit into any ready-made religious category. But Carlisle shows how it wrestles with the question of religion in strikingly original ways, responding both critically and constructively to the diverse, broadly Christian context in which Spinoza lived and worked. Philosophy itself, as Spinoza practiced it, became a spiritual endeavor that expressed his devotion to a truthful, virtuous way of life. Offering startling new insights into Spinoza’s famously enigmatic ideas about eternal life and the intellectual love of God, Carlisle uncovers a Spinozist religion that integrates self-knowledge, desire, practice, and embodied ethical life to reach toward our “highest happiness”—to rest in God. Seen through Carlisle’s eyes, the Ethics prompts us to rethink not only Spinoza but also religion itself.