Title:
Ethics / Benedict de Spinoza ; edited and translated by Edwin Curley ; with an introduction by Stuart Hampshire.
Author:
Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677.
Hampshire, Stuart, 1914-2004.
Curley, E. M. (Edwin M.), 1937-
Publication Information:
London ; New York : Penguin Books, 1996.
Call Number:
B3973.E5 C8 1996
Abstract:
"Published shortly after his death in 1677, Ethics is undoubtedly Spinoza?s greatest work: a fully cohesive philosophical system that strives to provide a coherent picture of reality and to comprehend the meaning of an ethical life. Following a logical step-by-step format, it defines in turn the nature of God, the mind, human bondage to the emotions, and the power of understanding, moving from a consideration of the eternal to speculate upon humanity's place in the natural order, freedom, and the path to attainable happiness. A powerful work of elegant simplicity, Ethics is a brilliantly insightful consideration of the possibility of redemption through intense thought and philosophical reflection."--P. [4] of cover.
ISBN:
9780140435719
Series:
Penguin classics
Penguin classics.
Physical Description:
xix, 186 p. ; 20 cm.
General Note:
"This translation first published in the USA in A Spinoza reader by Princeton University Press 1994"--T.p. verso.
Contents:
1. Of God --- 2. Of the nature and origin of the mind --- 3. Of the origin and nature of the affects --- 4. Of human bondage, or the powers of the affects --- 5. Of the power of the intellect, or on human freedom.
Uniform Title:
Ethica. English
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