A Study of Spinoza's 'Ethics'
Author: Jonathan Bennett
Publisher: CUP Archive
Published: 1984-07
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9780521277426
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Author: Jonathan Bennett
Publisher: CUP Archive
Published: 1984-07
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9780521277426
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jonathan Bennett
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Published: 1984-01-01
Total Pages: 414
ISBN-13: 9780915145836
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"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
Author: James Martineau
Publisher:
Published: 1895
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents Spinoza’s life and philosophy specifically in logic theory, metaphysics, ethics’ doctrine, political doctrine, religion, and theology.
Author: S. Paul Kashap
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1972-01-01
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780520021426
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Steven Nadler
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2011-10-09
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 069113989X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen 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].
Author: Richard Mason
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1999-07
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9780521665858
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Author: Valtteri Viljanen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-09-29
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 1139501461
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Author: Herman de Dijn
Publisher:
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe philosophy of Baruch Spinoza (1632-77) is an unusual,highly original, and influential reaction to the transition of Western cultureto the modern age. According to Spinoza, modern scientific thinking, if thoughtthrough, leads to a denial of humanity as the center of creation, willed by apersonal God. It is Spinoza who first formulated a philosophy which shows thatmodern scientific thinking, and the modern metaphysical view of humanity andthe world that it gives rise to, does not have to lead to despair. He understoodthat engaging seriously in detached philosophical thinking could lead to anunexpected form of intellectual salvation. De Dijn's comprehensive introduction to Spinoza's philosophyis based on two key texts. He first provides an in-depth analysis of Spinoza's Treatise on the Improvement of theUnderstanding, which De Dijn characterizes as his introduction tophilosophy. This notoriously difficult text is here made accessible, even inits details. This analysis is followed by a comprehensive survey of Spinoza'smetaphysics as presented in his famous Ethics. De Dijn demonstrates howSpinoza's central philosophical project as introduced in the Treatise - thelinkage of knowledge and salvation - is perfectly realized in the Ethics. In thisway the unity of Spinoza's thought is shown to consist in his preoccupationwith the ethical question of salvation. The book also containsintroductory chapters on Spinoza's life and work, the original Latin text ofthe Treatise and its new English translation by Edwin Curley, and an annotatedbibliography on the secondary literature.
Author: Stuart Hampshire
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1953
Total Pages: 24
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Firmin DeBrabander
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2007-03-15
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780826493934
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines Spinoza's moral and political philosophy and his engagement with Stoicism.