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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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.
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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."
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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.
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If Socrates' execution was the key event in Plato's life that shaped his subsequent career in philosophy, Spinoza's excommunication from the Jewish community of Amsterdam in 1656 at the age of twenty-four was similarly the critical episode in his life and thought. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
equally great emotion, absolutely infinite entity, fictitious idea, passive emotion, desire whereby, infinite intellect, determinate existence, formal being, infinite essence, mind affirms, less perfection, inadequate ideas, pleasure arising, particular volitions, preceding proposition, formal essence, infinite attributes, desire arising, idea whereby, objective essence, infinite things, body endures, determinate way, man endeavors Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Corollary Hence, Proof All, Benedict de Spinoza, Definition of Emotions, Holy Scripture, Proof Whatever, Scholium Hence, Henry Oldenburg, Ludwig Meyer, Principles of Philosophy, Short Treatise, Hasdai Crescas, Proof God, Proof Let, Proof There, Juan de Prado, Spinoza's God, Translator's Note New!
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If Socrates' execution was the key event in Plato's life that shaped his subsequent career in philosophy, Spinoza's excommunication from the Jewish community of Amsterdam in 1656 at the age of twenty-four was similarly the critical episode in his life and thought. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
equally great emotion, absolutely infinite entity, fictitious idea, passive emotion, desire whereby, infinite intellect, determinate existence, formal being, infinite essence, mind affirms, less perfection, inadequate ideas, pleasure arising, particular volitions, preceding proposition, formal essence, infinite attributes, desire arising, idea whereby, objective essence, infinite things, body endures, determinate way, man endeavors Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Corollary Hence, Proof All, Benedict de Spinoza, Definition of Emotions, Holy Scripture, Proof Whatever, Scholium Hence, Henry Oldenburg, Ludwig Meyer, Principles of Philosophy, Short Treatise, Hasdai Crescas, Proof God, Proof Let, Proof There, Juan de Prado, Spinoza's God, Translator's Note New!
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- The Principles Of Philosophy by Rene Descartes on 5 pages
- The Guide of the Perplexed, Vol. 1 by Moses Maimonides on page 19, and page 67
- Principles of Cartesian Philosophy, with Metaphysical Thoughts and Lodewijk Meyer's Inaugural Dissertation by Benedictus de Spinoza on page 276, and page 277
- Spinoza: New Perspectives by Robert W. Shahan on page 19, and Back Matter
- The Philosophy of Baruch Spinoza (Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy) by Richard Kennington in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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