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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 8 February 2023
- ISBN 9780197629314
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages312 pages
- Size 142x198x30 mm
- Weight 363 g
- Language English 478
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Short description:
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.
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Baruch Spinoza's Ethics was published in 1677 just after his death. Along with Descartes's Meditations (1641) and Leibniz's mature essays (1685-1714) the Ethics is regarded as among the most important philosophical work of continental Early Modern Europe. In this guide, Michael LeBuffe follows the Ethics closely and helps readers to understand Spinoza's masterpiece for themselves.
The Ethics is a hugely ambitious work that offers strong, controversial views on almost every aspect of philosophy. In a geometrical style, in which propositions build upon definitions and axioms, Spinoza contends that there is only one substance, God, and that everything that exists, including God and human beings, is subject to absolute necessity. Nevertheless, he also defends rich theories of human action and ethics. Spinoza maintains that we can and should work to overcome the harmful influence of passion and enjoy salvation and blessedness.
LeBuffe includes an introduction designed to supply first time readers with enough background to study the text productively. He then devotes a chapter to each of the Ethics' five parts: on God, mind, the affects or emotions, human bondage, and human freedom. The guide focuses on one manageable part of Spinoza's dense argument at a time, pausing frequently to raise and consider questions for further research. This accessible guide to the Ethics will help readers to understand the challenging text and to develop their own sophisticated interpretations of Spinoza.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Preface: How to Use this Guide
Abbreviations
Introduction
I. Working with the Geometrical Method
II. Spinoza's Life
III. Sources for the Ethics
Chapter 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
Chapter 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
Chapter 3: Desire, Joy, and Sadness
3.1 Human Activity and Passivity: 3 Preface-3p3
3.2 Striving to persevere in being and the Desire for Joy: 3p4-3p10
3.3 Passion, Desire, and Objects of Imagination: 3p11-3p50
3.4 Causation and Human Affects: 3p51-3p59
Chapter 4: Bondage to Passion
4.1 Formal accounts of good and evil: 4 Preface-4p8
4.2 Knowledge is power: 4p8-4p28
4.3 Human society: 4p29-4p37
4.4 Goods and evils: 4p38-4p73
Chapter 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
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