...contains a number of striking thematic insights...engagingly written and rewardingly focused...Readily accessible to its intended audience, the book will also be of considerable interest to more advanced students and philosophers as a further expression of Lloyd's distinctive reading of Spinoza.
Ethics...contains a number of striking thematic insights...engagingly written and rewardingly focused...Readily accessible to its intended audience, the book will also be of considerable interest to more advanced students and philosophers as a further expression of Lloyds distinctive reading of Spinoza.
EthicsI do believe that this book can provide clear guidance to the first-time reader while challenging the veteran Spinozist with its impressive interpretive insight. The book provides an accessible and engaging introduction to one of philosophy's most challenging works.
Professor J. Thomas Cook, Rollins CollegeI do believe that this book can provide clear guidance to the first-time reader while challenging the veteran Spinozist with its impressive interpretive insight. The book provides an accessible and engaging introduction to one of philosophys most challenging works.
Professor J. Thomas Cook, Rollins CollegeI have read
Spinoza and the Ethics with great pleasure an am deeply impressed. It discusses an exceptionally wide range of poast and present readings of the
Ethics, so that the reader gains a sense of the many angles from which this text has been approached ... It offers an interpretation of the whole of the
Ethics, and culminates in a fascinating and nuanced discussion of it final section about the intellectual love of God. Most importantly, it develops a distinctive and insightful account which aims both to do justice to Spinoza's own philosophical aspirations, and to relate these to our own.
Susan James, Girton College, CambridgeI have read
Spinoza and the Ethics with great pleasure an am deeply impressed. It discusses an exceptionally wide range of poast and present readings of the
Ethics, so that the reader gains a sense of the many angles from which this text has been approached ... It offers an interpretation of the whole of the
Ethics, and culminates in a fascinating and nuanced discussion of it final section about the intellectual love of God. Most importantly, it develops a distinctive and insightful account which aims both to do justice to Spinozas own philosophical aspirations, and to relate these to our own.
Susan James, Girton College, CambridgeLloyd has many important insights. She emphasizes the plentitude of substance, the identity of thought and reality, intuitive knoledge, the irreducible particularity have been forgotten..
Philosophy in Review/Comptes rendus philosophiquesThis well-crafted and pithy introduction to
Ethics, intended for students coming to Spinoza for the first time, ranks with the best of its kind to appear since Hampshire's classic
Spinoza (1951).
Religious Studies ReviewThis well-crafted and pithy introduction to
Ethics, intended for students coming to Spinoza for the first time, ranks with the best of its kind to appear since Hampshires classic
Spinoza (1951).
Religious Studies Review
Written for students coming to Spinoza for the first time,
Spinoza and the Ethics is the ideal guide to this rich and illuminating work. This GuideBook provides an overview of critical interpretations, relating the
Ethics to its intellectual context, considers its historical reception; and highlights why the work continues to be relevant today. In addition, the most intriguing final sections of the
Ethics, usually ignored in introductory commentaries, are given special attention and illuminated as the climax of the work.