A Spinoza Reader: The Ethics and Other WorksThis anthology of the work of Baruch de Spinoza (1632-1677) presents the text of Spinoza's masterwork, the Ethics, in what is now the standard translation by Edwin Curley. Also included are selections from other works by Spinoza, chosen by Curley to make the Ethics easier to understand, and a substantial introduction that gives an overview of Spinoza's life and the main themes of his philosophy. Perfect for course use, the Spinoza Reader is a practical tool with which to approach one of the world's greatest but most difficult thinkers, a passionate seeker of the truth who has been viewed by some as an atheist and by others as a religious mystic. |
Contents
PRELIMINARIES | 3 |
From a NonGeometric Draft of the Ethics | 55 |
The Study Group has Questions about Definitions | 77 |
The Worm in the Blood Spinoza to Henry Oldenburg | 82 |
THE ETHICs I Of God | 85 |
Of the Nature and Origin of the Mind | 115 |
Of the Origin and Nature of the Affects | 152 |
Of Human Bondage or the Powers of the Affects | 197 |
OBJECTIONs AND REPLIES I Tschirnhaus on Freedom | 266 |
Freedom and Necessity | 267 |
Tschirnhaus on Problems about the Attributes and Infinite Modes | 271 |
Tschirnhaus on Knowledge of Other Attributes | 272 |
Tschirnhaus Presses His Objection | 273 |
Tschirnhaus on Deducing the Existence of Bodies | 274 |
Spinozas Last Reply | 275 |
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A Spinoza Reader: The Ethics and Other Works Baruch Spinoza,Benedictus de Spinoza No preview available - 1994 |