Spinoza's 'Ethics': An Introduction (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521836203)

Spinoza's Ethics is one of the most remarkable, important, and difficult books in the history of philosophy: a treatise simultaneously on metaphysics, knowledge, philosophical psychology, moral philosophy, and political philosophy. It presents, in Spinoza's famous 'geometric method', his radical views on God, Nature, the human being, and happiness. In this wide-ranging 2006 introduction to the work, Steven Nadler explains the doctrines and arguments of the Ethics, and shows why Spinoza's endlessly fascinating ideas may have been so troubling to his contemporaries, as well as why they are still highly relevant today. He also examines the philosophical background to Spinoza's thought and the dialogues in which Spinoza was engaged - with his contemporaries (including Descartes and Hobbes), with ancient thinkers (especially the Stoics), and with his Jewish rationalist forebears. His book is written for the student reader but will also be of interest to specialists in early modern philosophy.

Author: Steven Nadler
ISBN-10: 0521836204
ISBN-13: 9780521836203
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/25/2006
Pages: 300
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.40w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2006 pg. 7