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  Ethics (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature) (Paperback) By (author) Benedictus de Spinoza, Introduction by Don Garrett, Translated by A. H. Stirling, Translated by W. H. White, Series edited by Tom Griffith

  

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  Short Description for EthicsFirst 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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  • Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
  • Published: 05 March 2001
  • Format: Paperback 368 pages
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  • Categories: Literary Essays | Classics | History Of Western Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy
  • ISBN 13: 9781840221190 ISBN 10: 1840221194
  • Sales rank: 26,977

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• 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.