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Spinoza's 'Ethics': An Introduction (Cambridge Introductions to Key Philosophical Texts) (Paperback)
$27.31 - Save $2.69 (8%) - RRP $30.00 Free delivery worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 24 hours | |Short Description for Spinoza's 'Ethics'Nadler explains the background to Spinoza's thought and the dialogues in which he was engaged.
Full description- Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Published: 25 May 2006
- Format: Paperback 300 pages
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- Categories: History Of Ideas | Philosophy | History Of Western Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy
- ISBN 13: 9780521544795 ISBN 10: 0521544793
- Sales rank: 222,731
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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.
