Ethics Revised Edition Contributor(s): de Spinoza, Benedict (Author), White, W. H. (Translator), Stirling, A. K. (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1840221194 ISBN-13: 9781840221190 Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
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BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics |
Dewey: FIC |
Series: Classics of World Literature |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5" W x 7.7" L (0.50 lbs) 368 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 17th Century - Cultural Region - Benelux |
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Publisher Description: 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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