A Study of Spinoza's 'Ethics'
Author : Jonathan Bennett
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 10,90 MB
Release : 1984-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521277426
A Book Forged in Hell
Author : Steven Nadler
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 40,7 MB
Release : 2011-10-09
Category : History
ISBN : 069113989X
Book Description
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's Book of Life
Author : Steven B. Smith
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 23,90 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0300128495
Book Description
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: Complete Works
Author : Baruch Spinoza
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 992 pages
File Size : 13,44 MB
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1603846921
Book Description
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 on Nature
Author : James Collins
Publisher :
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 25,91 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Philosophy
ISBN :
Book Description
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.
The God of Spinoza
Author : Richard Mason
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 50,72 MB
Release : 1999-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521665858
Book Description
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.
Looking for Spinoza
Author : Antonio R. Damasio
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 27,21 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780156028714
Book Description
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Spinoza's Ethics
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 12,41 MB
Release : 2011-04-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9004202455
Book Description
Against the background of religious wars and in full knowledge of the relevance of the new exact sciences of the the seventeenth-century, Spinoza developed one of the most ambitious projects in the history of philosophy: his Ethics written in geometrical style. It is a book that deals with ontology, epistemology, human emotions, as well as with freedom and bondage of individuals and societies, in one continuous line of argument. At the same time, the book combines the highest standards of conceptual and argumentative clarity with a wisdom that is saturated with the experience of life. Even today it sets a standard for enlightened theoretical and practical reasoning. This collective commentary discusses all five parts of Spinoza's Ethics. In the introduction, historical consequences of the Ethics are elucidated, as well as its continued philosophical relevance.
Spinoza and the Stoics
Author : Firmin DeBrabander
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 26,12 MB
Release : 2007-03-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780826493934
Book Description
Examines Spinoza's moral and political philosophy and his engagement with Stoicism.
Spinoza's Geometry of Power
Author : Valtteri Viljanen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 42,13 MB
Release : 2011-09-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1139501461
Book Description
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.
