Designed to facilitate a thoughtful and informed reading of Spinoza’s Ethics, this anthology provides the Ethics, related writings, and two valuable appendices: List of Propositions from the Ethics, which helps readers to trace the development of key themes; and Citations in Proofs, a list of all the propositions, corollaries, and scholia in the Ethics, together with all the definitions, axioms, propositions, corollaries, and scholia to which Spinoza refers in the proofs—thus, readers can locate, for a given item, each instance where Spinoza refers to it.
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Designed to facilitate a thoughtful and informed reading of Spinoza’s Ethics, this anthology provides the Ethics, related writings, and two valuable appendices: List of Propositions from the Ethics, which helps readers to trace the development of key themes; and Citations in Proofs, a list of all the propositions, corollaries, and scholia in the Ethics, together with all the definitions, axioms, propositions, corollaries, and scholia to which Spinoza refers in the proofs—thus, readers can locate, for a given item, each instance where Spinoza refers to it.
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Michael L. Morgan is Professor of Philosophy, Indiana University.
Samuel Shirley, now retired, has been Classics Exhibitioner of Balliol College, Oxford, Latin Lecturer at Cardiff University, and Headmaster of Waverley Grammar School, Birmingham, England.
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Essential for Spinozists,
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For us Spinozists most one-volume compendia are welcome, and none more so than this one edited by Michael Morgan. Its contents include the Ethics in its entirety, the Treatise on God, Man, and His Well-Being (extracts), Principles of Cartesian Philosophy, Part I, and the Letters (selections). For its price I can't think of a better introductory text to Spinoza's profound system of thought. Highly recommended.
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What's in a name? "The Essential Spinoza: Ethics and Related Writings" - it seems clear enough, but in the world of internet book-buying, things are not always as they seem.
There are in fact two books available through Amazon with this same title. One has been edited by two reputable academics, Morgan and Shirley, and contains an introduction and critical apparatus. The other is published by an outfit called Classic Books International, and is just the bare text - in a very unappealing typeface - that has all the looks of a copy-and-paste job, with the pasting done crooked onto the page most of the time. There are editions of Spinoza available for half the price of this "Classic Books" effort. I spent the extra money thinking I would be getting an attractive and authoritative presentation of this great philosopher's work. Next time I'll be more circumspect about favourable reviews ending with "This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition." In the meantime, this "Classic Book" is winging its way straight back to Amazon for refund.
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A new book, with a good selection of Spinoza works. I think the book is a must reading if you are considering Spinosa as a theme for further and deeper studies or even if you need/want to have a general opinion about this important author.
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1. By that which is self-caused I mean that whose essence involves existence; or that whose nature can be conceived only as existing. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Cor Hence, Short Treatise, Proof All, Proof Insofar, Henry Oldenburg, Lodewijk Meyer, Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, Principles of Cartesian Philosophy, Proof Whatever, General Definition of Emotions, Simon de Vries, Johan Bouwmeester, Proof God, Schol Hence, Pieter Balling, Proof There, Corollary Lemma, Jarig Jelles, John Hudde, Proof Let, Robert Boyle, Royal Society, Second Set of Objections, Axioms Taken, Cogitata Metaphysica New!
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1. By that which is self-caused I mean that whose essence involves existence; or that whose nature can be conceived only as existing. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Cor Hence, Short Treatise, Proof All, Proof Insofar, Henry Oldenburg, Lodewijk Meyer, Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, Principles of Cartesian Philosophy, Proof Whatever, General Definition of Emotions, Simon de Vries, Johan Bouwmeester, Proof God, Schol Hence, Pieter Balling, Proof There, Corollary Lemma, Jarig Jelles, John Hudde, Proof Let, Robert Boyle, Royal Society, Second Set of Objections, Axioms Taken, Cogitata Metaphysica New!
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- Principles of Cartesian Philosophy, with Metaphysical Thoughts and Lodewijk Meyer's Inaugural Dissertation by Benedictus de Spinoza on 8 pages
- Theological-Political Treatise: Gebhardt Edition by Benedictus de Spinoza on 7 pages
- Political Treatise by Benedictus de Spinoza on 7 pages
- The Principles Of Philosophy by Rene Descartes on 6 pages
- Descartes: Discourse On Method by Laurence J. Lafleur on page 162, and page 222
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