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Ethics

Spinoza, Benedict deGarrett, Don(Introduction by)Stirling, A.K.(Translated by)White, W.H.(Translated by)Griffith, Tom(Series edited by)
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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 words 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 44, 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.

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Wordsworth Editions Ltd
1840221194 / 9781840221190
Paperback / softback
170
05/03/2001
United Kingdom
English
400p.
20 cm
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