| Description |
1 online resource (313 p.) |
| Series |
Oxford Guides to Philosophy Ser |
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Oxford Guides to Philosophy Ser
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| 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
In this short guide to a masterpiece of early modern philosophy, Michael LeBuffe leads readers through Spinoza's Ethics, focusing on one manageable part of the work's dense argument at a time and pausing frequently to raise questions for further research. This guide is designed to help readers to develop and defend their own sophisticated interpretations of Spinoza |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677. Ethica
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| SUBJECT |
Ethica (Spinoza, Benedictus de) fast (OCoLC)fst01356339 |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780197629321 |
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0197629326 |
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