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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455429603321

Autore

Lloyd Genevieve

Titolo

Routledge philosophy guidebook to Spinoza and The ethics / / Genevieve Lloyd

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1996

ISBN

1-134-84108-6

1-134-84109-4

1-280-18242-3

0-203-42700-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (174 p.)

Collana

Routledge philosophy guidebooks

Disciplina

170

Soggetti

Ethics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-158) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Spinoza and the Ethics; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Chapter 1 Spinoza in his time and ours; The outsider; How many 'Spinozas'?; Reading Spinoza; The text; Chapter 2 God, minds and bodies; God and 'his' attributes; God and the world; The mind and will of God; The idea of the body; Ways of knowing; Chapter 3 From bondage to freedom; The emotions; Striving to persist: an ethic of joy; The 'free man'; Chapter 4 Intuitive knowledge and the intellectual love of God; The eternity of the mind; The self-knowledge of the 'blessed'

Chapter 5 The way to wisdomNotes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Spinoza is a key figure in modern philosophy. The Ethics is his most studied and well known work Being both up-to-date and clear, this Guidebook is designed to lead the reader through this complex, seminal text.