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.

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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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 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: 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.

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.

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].

Nature and Necessity in Spinoza's Philosophy

Nature and Necessity in Spinoza's Philosophy
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 502
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ISBN-10 : 9780190880002
ISBN-13 : 0190880007
Rating : 4/5 (02 Downloads)

Synopsis Nature and Necessity in Spinoza's Philosophy by : Don Garrett

Spinoza's guiding commitment to the thesis that nothing exists or occurs outside of the scope of nature and its necessary laws makes him one of the great seventeenth-century exemplars of both philosophical naturalism and explanatory rationalism. Nature and Necessity in Spinoza's Philosophy brings together for the first time eighteen of Don Garrett's articles on Spinoza's philosophy, ranging over the fields of metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, ethics, and political philosophy. Taken together, these influential articles provide a comprehensive interpretation of that philosophy, including Spinoza's theories of substance, thought and extension, causation, truth, knowledge, individuation, representation, consciousness, conatus, teleology, emotion, freedom, responsibility, virtue, contract, the state, and eternity-and the deep interrelations among them. Each article aims to resolve significant problems in the understanding of Spinoza's philosophy in such a way as to make evident both his reasons for his views and the enduring value of his ideas. At the same time, Garrett's articles elucidate the relations between his philosophy and those of predecessors and contemporaries like Aristotle, Hobbes, Descartes, Locke, and Leibniz. Lastly, the volume offers important and substantial replies to leading critics on four crucial topics: the necessary existence of God (Nature), substance monism, necessitarianism, and consciousness.

Spinoza

Spinoza
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 447
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ISBN-10 : 9781134456369
ISBN-13 : 1134456360
Rating : 4/5 (69 Downloads)

Synopsis Spinoza by : Michael Della Rocca

Renowned for his metaphysics, Spinoza made significant contributions to understanding the human mind, the emotions, moral philosophy, and political philosophy. Beginning with an overview of Spinoza's life, Michael Della Rocca carefully unpacks and explains Spinoza's philosophy: his metaphysics of substance and argument at the center of his whole system that God is the sole independent substance; his account of the human mind and its relation to the body; his theory that human beings tend towards self-preservation and his most famous work, the Ethics, including the problem of free will; and his writings on the state, religion and scripture. Della Rocca concludes with a chapter on Spinoza's legacy and how modern philosophers, Hume, Hegel, and Nietzsche, responded to Spinoza's challenge. Ideal for those coming to Spinoza for the first time as well as those already acquainted with his thought, Spinoza is essential reading for anyone studying philosophy.