Spinoza's Ethics and "De Intellectus Emendatione".
Spinoza's Ethics and

Author: Benedictus de Spinoza

Publisher: London : Dent

Published: 1910

Total Pages: 328

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"Translated by A. Boyle; introduction by George Santayana.""Treatise on the correction of the understanding (tractatus de intellectus emendatione) and on the way in which it may be directed towards a true knowledge of things": pages [225]-263. "A list of the works of Spinoza": pages xxiii

Tractatus de Intellectus Emendatione
Tractatus de Intellectus Emendatione

Author: Baruch Spinoza

Publisher:

Published: 2020-03-25

Total Pages: 90

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The Tractatus was first published in 1677, the year of Spinoza's death, by some of his closest friends, along with other works including the Ethica and the Tractatus Politicus. It is an attempt to formulate a philosophical method that would allow the mind to form clear and distinct ideas that are necessary for its perfection. It contains, in addition, reflection upon the various kinds of knowledge, an extended treatment of definition, and a lengthy analysis of the nature and causes of doubt. He discusses, among other topics, perception, experience, intelligence, memory, and forgetting.

Spinoza's Ethics
Spinoza's Ethics

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2011-04-11

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13: 9004202455

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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's Ethics
Spinoza's Ethics

Author: Yitzhak Y. Melamed

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-05-25

Total Pages: 610

ISBN-13: 110822864X

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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.

The Spinozistic Ethics of Bertrand Russell
The Spinozistic Ethics of Bertrand Russell

Author: Kenneth Blackwell

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-01-03

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 1135107114

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Bertrand Russell’s professional philosophical reputation rests mainly on his mathematical logic and theory of knowledge. In this study, first published in 1985, however, Kenneth Blackwell considers Russell’s writings on ethics and metaethics and uncovers the conceptual unity in Russell’s normative ethic. He traces that unity to the influence of Spinoza’s central ethical concept, the ‘intellectual love of God’, and then evaluates the ethic which he terms ‘impersonal self-enlargement’. The introduction discusses the metaethical background to Russell’s ethic and the difficulties inherent in Russell’s view that ethical knowledge is not possible. The first section then examines Russell’s writings on Spinoza from 1894 to 1964, dividing them into three periods, the second part analyzes Russell’s two interpretations of the main concept, traces 'impersonal self-enlargement' in Russell’s own ethical writings, and evaluates the ethic in relation to other ethical theories and on its own merits as a ‘way of living’. This book provides a foundation for a positive re-evaluation of Russell’s status in the major philosophical field of ethics and will be welcomed by students of moral philosophy as well as those interested in Bertrand Russell’s works.