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Ethics

By Spinoza, Benedictus De

Ethics Philosophy

Ethics

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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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
368
Release Date:
2001-03-05
Publication Date:
2001-03-05
Publisher:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1840221194
ISBN13:
9781840221190
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Weight:
218 g
Height:
128 cm
Width:
196 cm
Thickness:
20 cm
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