In the event things got worse, and spinoza gave up the idea of publishing the ethics, believing that it would create such a cloud of hostility as to obscure, in the minds even of reasonable people, the real meaning of its arguments. A curious pastime, as you can see, and one that i had never. The novel is a masterpiece, depicting the ultimate triumph of clear and compassionate reason over religious dogma and political pathology alike. Project gutenberg offers 61876 free ebooks for kindle, ipad, nook, android, and iphone. Riproduzione fotografica integrale a cura e con prefazione di filippo mignini e nota introduttiva di pina totaro. Spinozas books, along with other special works of the period, will be on display march 12 in the special collections library. Baruch spinoza has 178 books on goodreads with 118128 ratings. Rejecting both the mindbody dualism of descartes and traditional religious views about god and the universe, spinoza s philosophy was groundbreaking in its radical understanding of the relationship between the human person and the divine, the nature of moral action, and the relativization of the. Download full looking for spinoza book in pdf, epub, mobi and all ebook format. Giovanni licata 2010 rivista di storia della filosofia 65 1. Edwin curleys, the collected works of spinoza, vol i 1985, princeton u press is this kind of scholarship. Spinozas magnum opus, the ethics, was published posthumously in the year of his death.
This intellectual selfhelp book provides important insights from spinozas system of thought in a format accessible to the general reader, as well as to those already familiar with his philosophy. His life and philosophy have long attracted the attention of. I had been an academic, turned prison guard, diagnosed with ptsd. Spinoza in 90 minutes philosophers in 90 minutes series by paul strathern and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. For the past few years i have been looking for spinoza, sometimes in books, sometimes in places, and that is why i am here today. Spinozas most famous and provocative idea is that god is. Philosophy as a way of life clare carlisle opinion. Spinozas ethics by spinoza abebooks shop for books. Among philosophers, spinoza is best known for his ethics, a monumental work that presents an ethical vision. The spinoza problem is a ringing endorsement for an authentically philosophical life, wherein a toweringly heroic philosopher is persecuted in two eras. Vanderbilt libraries acquire three of spinozas book. This was the first complete biography of spinoza in any language and is based on detailed archival research. Read the philosophy of spinoza by joseph ratner available from rakuten kobo. Of all the philosophers of the seventeenth century, spinoza is among the most relevant today.
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