Spinoza Reader The Ethics and Other Works

Name: Spinoza Reader The Ethics and Other Works
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ISBN: 9780691000671

ISBN-10: 0691000670

ISBN-13: 9780691000671

Edition: 1994

Authors: Benedictus de Spinoza, Edwin Curley

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This anthology of the work of Baruch de Spinoza (1632-1677) presents the text of Spinoza's masterwork, theEthics, in what is now the standard translation by Edwin Curley. Also included are selections from other works by Spinoza, chosen by Curley to make theEthicseasier to understand, and a substantial introduction that gives an overview of Spinoza's life and the main themes of his philosophy. Perfect for course use, theSpinoza Readeris a practical tool with which to approach one of the world's greatest but most difficult thinkers, a passionate seeker of the truth who has been viewed by some as an atheist and by others as a religious mystic. The anthology begins with the opening section of…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 2/27/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.25" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Introduction



Spinoza's Life and Philosophy



Bibliographical Note



Abbreviations and Other Conventions Preliminaries



A Portrait of the Philosopher as a Young Man



A Critique of Traditional Religion



Fragments of a Theory of Scientific Method



From a Non-Geometric Draft of the Ethics



An Early Attempt at Geometrizing Philosophy



Two Criticisms of Descartes



The Study Group has Questions about Definitions



The Worm in the Blood82


The Ethics



Of God



Of the Nature and Origin of the Mind



Of the Origin and Nature of the Affects



Of Human Bondage, or the Powers of the Affects



Of the Power of the Intellect, or on Human Freedom


Objections and Replies



Tschirnhaus on Freedom



Freedom and Necessity



Tschirnhaus on Problems about the Attributes and Infinite Modes



On Knowledge of Other Attributes and Examples of Infinite Modes



Tschirnhaus on Knowledge of Other Attributes



Each Thing Is Expressed by Many Minds



Tschirnhaus Presses His Objection



Spinoza Replies Again



Tschirnhaus on Deducing the Existence of Bodies



On the Uselessness of Descartes' Principles of Natural Things



Tschirnhaus Presses the Objection



Spinoza's Last Reply


Index