Description
| Product ID: | 9781840221190 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Classics of World Literature |
| Title: | Ethics |
| Authors: | Author: Benedict de Spinoza, Tom Griffith, W.H. White, A.K. Stirling |
| Page Count: | 368 |
| Subjects: | Literary essays, Literary essays, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Ethics and moral philosophy, History of Western philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating First 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. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Wordsworth Editions Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | Wordsworth Editions Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2001-03-05 |
