Nadlers aim is to offer a study of the treatise to a general readership rather than simply to an academic audience in order to explain the book, its. Full text of catalogue of the books in the circulating library. A curious pastime, as you can see, and one that i had never. However, the emphasis is on the moral rather than the metaphysical implications of the work. For the past few years i have been looking for spinoza, sometimes in books, sometimes in places, and that is why i am here today. What is usually, with a misguided anthropomorphism, called the. Baruch spinoza has 178 books on goodreads with 118128 ratings.
Practical philosophy by gilles deleuze, looking for spinoza. Spinoza s scandalous treatise and the birth of the secular age 2011 is much more accessible than israels study and has a different focus. I n the third book of the ethics, spinoza writes that he intends to consider human emotions as if the surfaces of lines, planes or solids. Chapter ten from book three, part one of bertrand russells the history of western philosophy 1945. Spinozas ethics by spinoza abebooks shop for books. I have listed the resources which i have found to be the most helpful in answer to whats the best way to read spinoza s the ethics. Spinoza argues that nature has a fixed and eternal order that cannot be contravened.
Bennetts philosophical writings are sophisticated and penetrating. In the book, spinoza became the first to argue that the bible is not literally the word of god but rather a work of human literature. In truth, yaloms explanation is speculation the spinoza problem could have been something else entirely. Leibniz the rationalists and locke, berkeley, and hume the empiricists. Kant and his magnum opus, learning from six philosophers. Especes menacees 2016, son epouse 2012, et apres 2007. The breadth and importance of spinozas work was not fully realized until many years after his death. Yalom postulates the spinoza problem was rosenbergs efforts to understand how a great geman like goethe could be influenced by a mere jew, or how a jew could write such an insightful book. His magnum opus, the posthumous ethics, in which he opposed descartes mindbody dualism, has earned him recognition as one of western philosophys most important thinkers. Professor smiths book is a good general introduction to spinozas great work of metaphysics, ethics demonstrated in a geometrical order.
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