TY  - BOOK
AU  - Spinoza,Benedictus de
AU  - Curley,E.M.
AU  - Spinoza,Benedictus de
TI  - A Spinoza reader: the Ethics and other works 
T2  - Princeton paperbacks
SN  - 0691033633 (alk. paper)
AV  - B3958 .C87 1994
U1  - 199/.492 20
PY  - 1994///
CY  - Princeton, N.J., Oxford
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Early works to 1800
KW  - Ethics
N1  - Includes index; Includes bibliographical references and index; Spinoza's life and philosophy -- Bibliographical note -- Abbreviations and other conventions -- Preliminaries. A portrait of the philosopher as a young man -- A critique of traditional religion -- Fragments of a theory of scientific method -- From a non-geometric draft of the Ethics -- An early attempt at geometrizing philosophy -- Two criticisms of Descartes -- The study group has questions about definitions -- The worm in the blood -- The Ethics. Of God -- Of the nature and origin of the mind -- Of the origin and nature of the affects -- Of human bondage, or the powers of the affects -- Of the power of the intellect, or on human freedom -- Objections and replies. Tschirnhaus on freedom -- Freedom and necessity -- Tschirnhaus on problems about the attributes and infinite modes -- On knowledge of other attributes and examples of infinite modes --Tschirnhaus on knowledge of other attributes -- Each thing is expressed by many minds -- Tschirnhaus presses his objection -- Spinoza replies again -- Tschirnhaus on deducing the existence of bodies -- On the uselessness of Descartes' principles of natural things -- Tschirnhaus presses the objection -- Spinoza's last reply
N2  - This anthology of the work of Baruch de Spinoza (1632-1677) presents the text of Spinoza's masterwork, the Ethics, in what is now the standard translation by Edwin Curley. Also included are selections from other works by Spinoza, chosen by Curley to make the Ethics easier to understand, and a substantial introduction that gives an overview of Spinoza's life and the main themes of his philosophy. Perfect for course use, the Spinoza Reader is a practical tool with which to approach one of the world's greatest but most difficult thinkers, a passionate seeker of the truth who has been viewed by some as an atheist and by others as a religious mystic. The anthology begins with the opening section of the Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect, which has always moved readers by its description of the young Spinoza's spiritual quest, his dissatisfaction with the things people ordinarily strive for--wealth, honor, and sensual pleasure--and his hope that the pursuit of knowledge would lead him to discover the true good. The emphasis throughout these selections is on metaphysical, epistemological, and religious issues: the existence and nature of God, his relation to the world, the nature of the human mind and its relation to the body, and the theory of demonstration, axioms, and definitions. For each of these topics, the editor supplements the rigorous discussions in the Ethics with informal treatments from Spinoza's other works
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