Ethics

Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung First published in a posthumous edition of 1677! this work by Spinoza is a systematic attempt to work out the nature of God! the relation between mind and body! human psychology! and the best way to live.

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• Authors: Benedict De Spinoza, B. Spinoza, Benedict Spinoza, Benedict De Spinoza, Benedictus de Spinoza
• Assisted by: Tom Griffith (Editor), Garrett Don (Introduction), A K Stirling (Translation), A. K. Stirling (Translation), A.K. Stirling (Translation), W H White (Translation), W. H. White (Translation), W.H. White (Translation), Griffith Tom (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: Wordsworth
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.12.1998
• EAN: 9781840221190
• ISBN: 978-1-84022-119-0
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 126 mm x 197 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature; Wordsworth Classics of World Literature; Classics of World Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Essays, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, PHILOSOPHY / Essays, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Literary essays, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, History of Western philosophy