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Author LeBuffe, Michael, author.

Title Spinoza's Ethics : a guide / Michael LeBuffe
Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]
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Series Oxford guides to philosophy
Oxford guides to philosophy.
Contents Cover -- Series -- Spinoza's Ethics -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface: How to Use This Guide -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations and Note on Translations -- Introduction -- I.1. Working with the Geometrical Method -- I.2. Spinoza's Life -- I.3. Sources for the Ethics -- 1. One Infinite Substance -- 1.1. The Definitions and Axioms of Ethics 1 -- 1.2. Existence: 1p1-​1p15 -- 1.3. The One and the Many: 1p16-​1p36 -- 1.4. Teleology and the Origin of Common Prejudice: Ethics 1 Appendix -- 2. The Idea of the Human Body -- 2.1. From Infinite Substance to Thought and Extension: 2d1-​2p9c -- 2.2. The Human Mind and the Human Body: 2p10-​2p18s -- 2.3. Inadequate Knowledge of the Self and the External World: 2p19-​2p36 -- 2.4. Genuine Knowledge: 2p37-​2p49s -- 3. Striving, Joy, and Sadness -- 3.1. Human Activity and Passivity: 3 Preface-​3p3 -- 3.2. Human Striving to Persevere in Being: 3p4-​3p10 -- 3.3. Passions, Desire, and Objects of Imagination: 3p11-​3p50 -- 3.4. Causation and Human Affects: 3p51-​3p59 -- 4. Bondage to Passion -- 4.1. Good, Evil, and the Problem of Bondage: 4 Preface to 4p7 -- 4.2. Knowledge and Power: 4p8-​4p28 -- 4.3. The Natural State and the Civil State: 4p29-​4p37 -- 4.4. Normative Ethics: 4p38-​4p73 -- 5. The Power of the Intellect -- 5.1. Descartes, Passions of the Soul, and the Pineal Gland: 5 Preface -- 5.2. Understanding and Imagination against the Passions: 5a1-​5p10s -- 5.3. Self-​Knowledge and the Love toward God: 5p11-​5p20s -- 5.4. Eternity, Blessedness, and Salvation: 5p21-​5p42s -- Index
Summary Baruch Spinoza's 'Ethics' was published in 1677 just after his death and is regarded as among the most important philosophical work of continental early modern Europe. In this guide Michael LeBuffe follows the 'Ethics' closely and helps readers to understand Spinoza's masterpiece for themselves. It is a hugely ambitious work that offers strong, controversial views on almost every aspect of philosophy
Notes Also issued in print: 2023
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from home page (Oxford Academics, viewed January 22, 2024)
Subject Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677. Ethica.
SUBJECT Ethica (Spinoza, Benedictus de) fast
Subject Ethics & moral philosophy.
Philosophy.
Form Electronic book
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