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Ethics New edition

Paperback by Spinoza, Benedict; White, W.H.; Stirling, A.K.; Garrett, Don; Griffith, Tom

Ethics

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ISBN:
9781840221190
Publication Date:
5 Mar 2001
Edition/language:
New edition / English
Publisher:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Pages:
368 pages
Format:
Paperback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 12 - 14 Sep 2025
Ethics

Description

Translated by W.H.White and A.K.Stirling. With an Introduction by Don Garrett. Benedict de Spinoza lived a life of blameless simplicity as a lens-grinder in Holland. And yet in his lifetime he was expelled from the Jewish community in Amsterdam as a heretic, and after his death his works were first banned by the Christian authorities as atheistic, then hailed by humanists as the gospel of Pantheism. His Ethics Demonstrated in Geometrical Order shows us the reality behind this enigmatic figure. First published by his friends after his premature death at the age of forty-four, the Ethics uses the methods of Euclid to describe a single entity, properly called both 'God' and 'Nature', of which mind and matter are two manifestations. From this follow, in ways that are strikingly modern, the identity of mind and body, the necessary causation of events and actions, and the illusory nature of free will.

Contents

Of God; of the nature and origin of the mind; on the origin and nature of the affects; of human bondage, or of the strength of affects; of the owner of the intellect, or of human liberty.

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