Spinoza: Ethics - Proved in Geometrical Order

A new, scholarly and accessible translation of this seventeenth-century philosophical text, including an introduction, glossary and chronology.

List of contents

Introduction; Chronology; Further reading; Note on the text and translation; First part; Second part; Third part; Fourth part; Fifth part.

About the author

Matthew J. Kisner is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Carolina. He is the author of Spinoza on Human Freedom: Reason, Autonomy and the Good Life (Cambridge, 2011) and the co-editor (with Andrew Youpa) of Essays on Spinoza's Ethical Theory (2014).Michael Silverthorne, formerly Professor in Classics at McGill University, Montreal, has translated a number of neo-Latin texts including works by Bacon, Pufendorf, Locke and Francis Hutcheson. He co-translated Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise (Cambridge, 2007).

Summary

Spinoza's Ethics is one of the most historically and philosophically significant texts of the early modern period. This new translation is based on a new critical edition, and the volume also offers an introduction, chronology and glossary to make this notoriously difficult text accessible to students.

Product details

• Authors: EDITED BY MATTHEW KI, Matthew (University of South Carolina) Kisner, Matthew J. Kisner, Matthew J. (University of South Carolina) Kisner
• Assisted by: Matthew Kisner (Editor), Matthew J. Kisner (Editor), Matthew J. (University of South Carolina) Kisner (Editor), Kisner Matthew J. (Editor), Michael Silverthorne (Translation), Silverthorne Michael (Translation)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9781107069718
• ISBN: 978-1-107-06971-8
• Series: Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy; Cambridge Texts in the History; Print on Demand; Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > General, dictionaries; PHILOSOPHY / General, Philosophy, Netherlands, Ethics & moral philosophy, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Ethics and moral philosophy, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, C 1600 To C 1700, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge