Spinoza on Ethics and Understanding

This volume collects together Peter Winch's previously unpublished lectures on the philosophy of Baruch Spinoza. Winch's original interpretation of Spinoza's Ethics sheds new light on the work of one history's most difficult and admired philosophers from a different perspective.

List of contents

Acknowledgements; Editors' Introduction; Winch, Spinoza and the Human Body, by David Cockburn; Note on the Text; Abbreviations; Spinoza: Ethics and Understanding; 1. Method and Judgement; 2. Substance and Attributes; 3. Negation, Limitation, and Modes; 4. Mind and Body; 5. The Emotions, Good and Evil; 6. The Life of Reason; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Peter Winch was Professor of Philosophy at King's College London and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 

David Cockburn is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at University of Wales, Trinity Saint David. 

Michael Campbell is a researcher at the Centre for Ethics in the University of Pardubice. 

Sarah Tropper is a researcher at the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Winch
• Assisted by: Michael Campbell (Editor), Sarah Tropper (Editor)
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781785275432
• ISBN: 978-1-78527-543-2
• No. of pages: 188
• Series: Anthem Studies in Wittgenstein
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works