The Ethics: Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect : Selected Letters [Hardcover]

Benedictus de Spinoza (Author), Seymour Feldman (Editor), Samuel Shirley (Translator)

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Publication Date: November 1991 | ISBN-10: 0872201317 | ISBN-13: 978-0872201316 | Edition: 2 Sub

Since their publications in 1982, Samuel Shirley's translations of Spinoza's Ethics and Selected Letters have been commended for their accuracy and readability. Now with the addition of his new translation of Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect this enlarged edition will be even more useful to students of Spinoza's thought.

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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Latin

About the Author

Baruch Spinoza; Translated by Samuel Shirley

Product Details

• Hardcover: 297 pages
• Publisher: Hackett Pub Co Inc; 2 Sub edition (November 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0872201317
• ISBN-13: 978-0872201316
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A fine translation of the Ethics., June 10, 2000

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John S. Ryan "Scott Ryan" (Cuyahoga Falls, OH) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Ethics: Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect : Selected Letters (Hardcover)

This volume is a fine translation of Spinoza's _Ethics_ together with some other writings that help to illuminate it -- namely, the _Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect_ and some well-chosen passages from Spinoza's correspondence.

Aside from its presentation of Samuel Shirley's clear and readable translation, this volume includes two additional helpful features. Seymour Feldman's workmanlike twenty-page introduction provides an overview of Spinoza's thought and of the main themes of the _Ethics_; and a translator's preface includes a list of twenty-four possibly confusing features of Spinoza's terminology with short explanations/clarifications. The TIE is of interest in its own right, and the items from Spinoza's correspondence are well selected to illustrate or elaborate some of the features of his more formal wriitngs.

19 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars For Spinoza Fans., March 13, 1999

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Joseph B. Yesselman (Fairfax, VA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Ethics ; Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect ; Selected Letters (Paperback)

Invaluable are the Introduction by Seymour Feldman and also, the Translator's Preface by Translator Samuel Shirley which gives lucid explanations of key Spinoza termsone of which is:

From Page 23, Note 5  G-D(Deus)

"Although Spinoza gives repeated warnings that his "Deus" is far from the anthropomorphic conception of God prevalent in the theology of his time, the reader will find it difficult to bear this constantly in mind. It is not until Ethics 1, Prop.14, that God, by definition, is shown to be identical with the infinite, all-inclusive, unique Substance, and thereafter it is all too easy to lose sight of this, as the religious overtones of the word "God" keep asserting themselves. So Spinoza's frequent use of the phrase "Deus sive Natura"God, or Natureis intended as a salutary corrective. For Spinoza God is all Being, all Reality, in all its aspects and in all its infinite richness."

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars No Intro, October 17, 2011

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This review is from: The Ethics ; Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect ; Selected Letters (Paperback)

I bought this based on the two previous reviewers recommendation of the "twenty Page intro" by Seymour Feldman. NO SUCH INTRO EXISTS. This is just a pure translation with no notes or introduction. You are on your own.