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Spinoza's Ethics: An Introduction (Cambridge Introductions to Key Philosophical Texts) (eBook)
Short Description for Spinoza's EthicsNadler explains the background to Spinoza's thought and the dialogues in which he was engaged.
Full description- Publisher: Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)
- Published: 25 June 2006
- Format: eBook 300 pages
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- Categories: Business & Management | Philosophy | Western Philosophy: C 1600 To C 1900 | Ethics & Moral Philosophy
- ISBN 13: 9780511217579 ISBN 10: 0511217579
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Full description for Spinoza's Ethics
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 dialogues in which Spinoza was engaged - with his contemporaries (including Descartes and Hobbes), with ancient thinkers (especially the Stoics), and with his Jewish rationalist forebears. His book is written for the student reader but will also be of interest to specialists in early modern philosophy.
