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Download or read book The Essential Spinoza written by Baruch Spinoza and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2006-03-15 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed to facilitate a thoughtful and informed reading of Spinoza's Ethics, this anthology provides the Ethics, related writings, and two valuable appendices: List of Propositions from the Ethics, which helps readers to trace the development of key themes; and Citations in Proofs, a list of all the propositions, corollaries, and scholia in the Ethics, together with all the definitions, axioms, propositions, corollaries, and scholia to which Spinoza refers in the proofs--thus, readers can locate, for a given item, each instance where Spinoza refers to it.
Download or read book Spinoza Complete Works written by Baruch Spinoza and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only complete edition in English of Baruch Spinoza's works, this volume features Samuel Shirley’s preeminent translations, distinguished at once by the lucidity and fluency with which they convey the flavor and meaning of Spinoza’s original texts. Michael L. Morgan provides a general introduction that places Spinoza in Western philosophy and culture and sketches the philosophical, scientific, religious, moral and political dimensions of Spinoza’s thought. Morgan’s brief introductions to each work give a succinct historical, biographical, and philosophical overview. A chronology and index are included.
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Download or read book An Elegant and Learned Discourse of the Light of Nature written by Nathanael Culverwel and published by . This book was released on 1669 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Spinoza s Ethics written by Yitzhak Y. Melamed and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-25 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spinoza's Ethics, published in 1677, is considered his greatest work and one of history's most influential philosophical treatises. This volume brings established scholars together with new voices to engage with the complex system of philosophy proposed by Spinoza in his masterpiece. Topics including identity, thought, free will, metaphysics, and reason are all addressed, as individual chapters investigate the key themes of the Ethics and combine to offer readers a fresh and thought-provoking view of the work as a whole. Written in a clear and accessible style, the volume sets out cutting-edge research that reflects, challenges, and promotes the most recent scholarly advances in the field of Spinoza studies, tackling old issues and bringing to light new subjects for debate.
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