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Ethics (Paperback, New edition)
Benedict Spinoza; Translated by W.H. White, A. K. Stirling; Introduction by Don Garrett; Series edited by Tom Griffith
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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.
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Ethics (Paperback, New Ed)
Benedict Spinoza; Introduction by Stuart Hampshire; Translated by Edwin Curley
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'The noblest and most lovable of the great philosophers ...
ethically he is supreme' Bertrand Russell Published shortly after
his death in 1677, the Ethics is Spinoza's greatest work - a fully
cohesive philosophical system that strives to provide a picture of
reality and to comprehend the meaning of an ethical life. It
defines in turn the nature of God, the mind, human bondage to the
emotions and the power of understanding - moving from a
consideration of the eternal, to speculate upon humanity's place in
the natural order and the path to attainable happiness. A work of
elegant simplicity, the Ethics is a brilliantly insightful
consideration of the possibility of redemption through
philosophical reflection. Translated by Edwin Curley with an
Introduction by Stuart Hampshire
After experience had taught me that all the usual surroundings of
social life are vain and futile; seeing that none of the objects of
my fears contained in themselves anything either good or bad,
except in so far as the mind is affected by them, I finally
resolved to inquire whether there might be some real good having
power to communicate itself, which would affect the mind singly, to
the exclusion of all else: whether, in fact, there might be
anything of which the discovery and attainment would enable me to
enjoy continuous, supreme, and unending happiness.
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