Spinoza's Ethics An Introduction

Name: Spinoza's Ethics An Introduction
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ISBN: 9780521544795

ISBN-10: 0521544793

ISBN-13: 9780521544795

Edition: 2006

Authors: Steven M. Nadler

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Spinoza's Ethics is one of the most remarkable, important, and difficult books in the history of philosophy: a treatise simultaneously on metaphysics, knowledge, philosophical psychology, moral philosophy, and political philosophy. It presents, in Spinoza's famous 'geometric method', his radical views on God, Nature, the human being, and happiness. In this wide-ranging introduction to the work, Steven Nadler explains the doctrines and arguments of the Ethics, and shows why Spinoza's endlessly fascinating ideas may have been so troubling to his contemporaries, as well as why they are still highly relevant today. He also examines the philosophical background to Spinoza's thought and the…

Book details

List price: $51.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 5/25/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 300
Size: 6.06" wide x 8.50" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgements


List of abbreviations



Spinoza's life and works



The geometric method



On God: substance



On God: necessity and determinism



The human being



Knowledge and will



The passions



Virtue and "the free man"



Eternity and blessedness


References


Index