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A Spinoza Reader: The Ethics and Other Works by Benedictus de Spinoza, Edwin M. Curley

A Spinoza Reader: The Ethics and Other Works Benedictus de Spinoza, Edwin M. Curley ebook
Page: 280
ISBN: 0691000670, 9780691000671
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Format: pdf

The book discusses the history of the (Spanish/Portuguese) Jewish community in 17th century Amsterdam; she traces the roots of the kind of religious and philosophical thought which a member of that community received as inheritance, and finds strands which emerge in Spinoza's work. A few weeks ago, I quoted this line from Russell: "The ethical work of Spinoza, for example, appears to me of the very highest significance, but what is valuable in such work is not any metaphysical theory as to the nature of the world to which it may give rise, I actually think this reading of Spinoza has a lot going for it (and the significance of maxims is a way in which Spinoza and Smith are connected), but about that some other time. Edwin Curley (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994), 267. A downloadable ten-minute mp3 on Spinoza's Ethics is now available here as part of my ongoing podcast of my book Philosophy: The Classics. In other words, we seem to agree on vague and general goals, Conatus: in Levi's (and Spinoza's) formulation of the concept, I don't see its use in terms of a flat ethics or in terms of an ethics that minimizes the centrality of humans; i.e., a weakly anthropocentric ethics. Tredwell has the data for generating a logical dependency graph of Spinoza's Ethics. I wanted to read Spinoza's Ethics; this volume also contains some excerpts from other writings and correspondence. His work remains as resonant and provocative today as it was when it first appeared. A Spinoza Reader (edited and translated by Edwin Curley). I converted Potentially more interesting are the individual graphs of the five parts of the Ethics. [1] Benedict de Spinoza, “Freedom and Necessity: Letter 58, Spinoza to Schuller for Tschirnhaus,” in A Spinoza Reader: The Ethics and Other Works, ed. This is also available from iTunes (in the Philosophy section of podcasts, which is a subsection of. After a long and unwieldly discussion on Twitter, Levi and I have come to the conclusion that we are on the same page, but reading from different texts.