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Absurdity
Analogy
Aristotelianism
Aristotle
Author_Edwin Curley
Awareness
Baruch Spinoza
Calculation
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Causality
Conatus
Concept
Conceptions of God
Contradiction
Counterexample
Critical thinking
Criticism
D. Reidel
De Cive
Disposition
Dualism (philosophy of mind)
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Ethics
Existence
Existence of God
Explanation
God
Good and evil
Hypothesis
Immutability (theology)
Indication (medicine)
Individuation
Inference
Intelligibility (philosophy)
Lecture
Leo Strauss
Materialism
Monism
Morality
Natura naturata
Omnipresence
Omniscience
Phenomenon
Philosopher
Philosophy
Physicalism
Pineal gland
Pity
Prima facie
Principle
Principles of Philosophy
Psychology
Quantity
Reason
Rene Descartes
Sadness
Scholasticism
Science
Self-consciousness
Self-interest
Self-love
Self-preservation
Spinozism
Stuart Hampshire
Subjectivism
Teleology
Theory
Theory of mind
Thomas Hobbes
Thought
Treatise
Writing
Product details
- ISBN 9780691020372
- Weight: 255g
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 21 May 1988
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book is the fruit of twenty-five years of study of Spinoza by the editor and translator of a new and widely acclaimed edition of Spinoza's collected works. Based on three lectures delivered at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1984, the work provides a useful focal point for continued discussion of the relationship between Descartes and Spinoza, while also serving as a readable and relatively brief but substantial introduction to the Ethics for students. Behind the Geometrical Method is actually two books in one. The first is Edwin Curley's text, which explains Spinoza's masterwork to readers who have little background in philosophy. This text will prove a boon to those who have tried to read the Ethics, but have been baffled by the geometrical style in which it is written. Here Professor Curley undertakes to show how the central claims of the Ethics arose out of critical reflection on the philosophies of Spinoza's two great predecessors, Descartes and Hobbes.
The second book, whose argument is conducted in the notes to the text, attempts to support further the often controversial interpretations offered in the text and to carry on a dialogue with recent commentators on Spinoza. The author aligns himself with those who interpret Spinoza naturalistically and materialistically.
