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1 online resource |
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Oxford guides to philosophy |
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Oxford guides to philosophy.
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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 -- 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 |
"This guide has an introduction and five chapters, one for each of the parts of Spinoza's Ethics. The Introduction includes background material necessary for productive study of the Ethics: advice for working with Spinoza's geometrical method, a biographical sketch of Spinoza, and accounts of important predecessors: Aristotle, Maimonides, and Descartes. The chapters that follow trace the Ethics in detail, including accounts of most of the elements in Spinoza's book and raising questions for further research. Chapter 1, "One Infinite Substance," covers central arguments of Spinoza's substance monism. Chapter 2, "The Idea of the Human Body," follows Spinoza's detailed metaphysics of ordinary objects, his theory of mind, and his epistemology. Chapter 3, "Desire, Joy, and Sadness," works from Spinoza's broad theory of finite activity in the striving to persevere in being to his detailed accounts of human action and passion. Chapter 4, "Bondage to Passion," emphasizes Spinoza's formal theory of value, his intellectualism in ethics, and particular claims about value that follow from these commitments. Chapter 5, "The Power of the Intellect," begins with Spinoza's criticism of Descartes's account of our ability to control passion and moves to Spinoza's own theory, which emphasizes reason, the eternal part of the mind, and human blessedness"-- Provided by publisher |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 27, 2022) |
| Subject |
Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677. Ethica.
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Ethica (Spinoza, Benedictus de) fast |
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Ethics.
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ethics (philosophy)
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Ethics
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Ethics & moral philosophy.
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Philosophy.
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handbooks.
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Handbooks and manuals.
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Guides et manuels.
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2022032431 |
| ISBN |
9780197629338 |
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0197629334 |
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9780197629345 |
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0197629342 |
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0197629326 |
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9780197629321 |
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