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"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 acc...

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Main Author: LeBuffe, Michael (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2023]
Series:Oxford guides to philosophy.
Subjects:
Spinoza, Benedictus de, > 1632-1677. > Ethica.
Ethica (Spinoza, Benedictus de)
Ethics.
Morale.
ethics (philosophy)
Ethics
Ethics & moral philosophy.
Philosophy.
Electronic books.
handbooks.
Handbooks and manuals.
Guides et manuels.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of 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.