A Study of Spinoza's Ethics

A Study of Spinoza's Ethics
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Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Total Pages : 414
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ISBN-10 : 0915145839
ISBN-13 : 9780915145836
Rating : 4/5 (39 Downloads)

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

"With an astonishing erudition . . . and in a direct no-nonsense style, Bennett expounds, compares, and criticizes Spinoza's theses. . . . No one can fail to profit from it. Bennett has succeeded in making Spinoza a philosopher of our time." --W. N. A. Klever, Studia Spinoza

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.

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.

Spinoza's Ethics

Spinoza's Ethics
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Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages : 192
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ISBN-10 : 9780748634514
ISBN-13 : 0748634517
Rating : 4/5 (14 Downloads)

Synopsis Spinoza's Ethics by : Beth Lord

Everything you need to know about Spinoza's Ethics in one volume.The Ethics presents a complete metaphysical, epistemological and ethical world-view that is immensely inspiring. However, it is also an extremely difficult text to read. This book takes readers through the text, stopping at the most perplexing passages to explain key terms, unfold arguments, offer concrete examples and raise questions for further thought. It is designed to be read alongside the Ethics, enabling students to think critically about Spinoza's views and build an understanding of his complex system.

Improvement of the Understanding

Improvement of the Understanding
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 480
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ISBN-10 : NYPL:33433081628947
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Rating : 4/5 (47 Downloads)

Synopsis Improvement of the Understanding by : Benedictus de Spinoza

An Analysis of Baruch Spinoza's Ethics

An Analysis of Baruch Spinoza's Ethics
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Publisher : CRC Press
Total Pages : 75
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ISBN-10 : 9780429939778
ISBN-13 : 0429939779
Rating : 4/5 (78 Downloads)

Synopsis An Analysis of Baruch Spinoza's Ethics by : Gary Slater

Baruch Spinoza’s Ethics is a dense masterpiece of sustained argumentative reasoning. It earned its place as one of the most important and influential books in Western philosophy by virtue of its uncompromisingly direct arguments about the nature of God, the universe, free will, and human morals. Though it remains one of the densest and most challenging texts in the entire canon of Western philosophy, Ethics is also famous for Spinoza’s unique approach to ordering and constructing its arguments. As its full title – Ethics, Demonstrated in Geometrical Order – suggests, Spinoza decided to use the rigorous format of mathematical-style propositions to lay out his arguments, just as the Ancient Greek mathematician Euclid had used geometrical propositions to lay out the basic rules of geometry. In choosing such a systematic method, Spinoza’s masterwork shows the crucial aspects of good reasoning skills being employed at the highest level. The key use of reasoning is the production of an argument that is well-organised, supports its conclusions and proceeds logically towards its end. Just as a mathematician might demonstrate a geometrical proof, Spinoza sought to lay out a comprehensive philosophy for human existence – an attempt that has influenced generations of philosophers since.

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's Ethics

Spinoza's Ethics
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 382
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ISBN-10 : 9780691197043
ISBN-13 : 0691197040
Rating : 4/5 (43 Downloads)

Synopsis Spinoza's Ethics by : Benedictus de Spinoza

An authoritative edition of George Eliot's elegant translation of Spinoza's greatest philosophical work In 1856, Marian Evans completed her translation of Benedict de Spinoza's Ethics while living in Berlin with the philosopher and critic George Henry Lewes. This would have become the first edition of Spinoza's controversial masterpiece in English, but the translation remained unpublished because of a disagreement between Lewes and the publisher. Later that year, Evans turned to fiction writing, and by 1859 she had published her first novel under the pseudonym George Eliot. This splendid edition makes Eliot's translation of the Ethics available to today's readers while also tracing Eliot's deep engagement with Spinoza both before and after she wrote the novels that established her as one of English literature's greatest writers. Clare Carlisle's introduction places the Ethics in its seventeenth-century context and explains its key philosophical claims. She discusses George Eliot's intellectual formation, her interest in Spinoza, the circumstances of her translation of the Ethics, and the influence of Spinoza's ideas on her literary work. Carlisle shows how Eliot drew on Spinoza's radical insights on religion, ethics, and human emotions, and brings to light surprising affinities between Spinoza's austere philosophy and the rich fictional worlds of Eliot's novels. This authoritative edition demonstrates why George Eliot's translation remains one of the most compelling and philosophically astute renderings of Spinoza's Latin text. It includes notes that indicate Eliot's amendments to her manuscript and that discuss her translation decisions alongside more recent English editions.