Spinoza: The Letters - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Spinoza: The Letters write by Baruch Spinoza. This book was released on 1995-12-15. Spinoza: The Letters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Samuel Shirley's splendid new translation, with critical annotation reflecting research of the last half-century, is the only edition of the complete text of Spinoza's correspondence available in English. An historical-philosophical Introduction, detailed annotation, a chronology, and a bibliography are also included.
The Correspondence of Spinoza
The Correspondence of Spinoza - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Correspondence of Spinoza write by A. Wolf. This book was released on 2019-04-18. The Correspondence of Spinoza available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First published in 1928, The Correspondence of Spinoza is deeply interesting in many ways. It presents a pageant of the leading types of seventeenth-century mentality. It affords contemporary glimpses of important scientific researches and discoveries. It brings us into touch with some of the social and political events and tendencies of the period. This book includes correspondent letters containing things of first-rate importance for the correct interpretation of the philosophy of Spinoza.
Spinoza: Complete Works
Spinoza: Complete Works - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Spinoza: Complete Works write by Baruch Spinoza. This book was released on 2002-11-01. Spinoza: Complete Works available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The only complete edition in English of Baruch Spinoza's works, this volume features Samuel Shirley’s preeminent translations, distinguished at once by the lucidity and fluency with which they convey the flavor and meaning of Spinoza’s original texts. Michael L. Morgan provides a general introduction that places Spinoza in Western philosophy and culture and sketches the philosophical, scientific, religious, moral and political dimensions of Spinoza’s thought. Morgan’s brief introductions to each work give a succinct historical, biographical, and philosophical overview. A chronology and index are included.
Spinoza on Philosophy, Religion, and Politics
Spinoza on Philosophy, Religion, and Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Spinoza on Philosophy, Religion, and Politics write by Susan James. This book was released on 2012-01-26. Spinoza on Philosophy, Religion, and Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Spinoza's Theologico-Political Treatise is simultaneously a work of philosophy and a piece of practical politics. It defends religious pluralism, a republican form of political organisation, and the freedom to philosophise, with a determination that is extremely rare in seventeenth-century thought. But it is also a fierce and polemical intervention in a series of Dutch disputes over issues about which Spinoza and his opponents cared very deeply. Susan James makes the arguments of the Treatise accessible, and their motivations plain, by setting them in their historical and philosophical context. She identifies the interlocking theological, hermeneutic, historical, philosophical, and political positions to which Spinoza was responding, shows who he aimed to discredit, and reveals what he intended to achieve. The immediate goal of the Treatise is, she establishes, a local one. Spinoza is trying to persuade his fellow citizens that it is vital to uphold and foster conditions in which they can cultivate their capacity to live rationally, free from the political manifestations and corrosive psychological effects of superstitious fear. At the same time, however, his radical argument is designed for a broader audience. Appealing to the universal philosophical principles that he develops in greater detail in his Ethics, and drawing on the resources of imagination to make them forceful and compelling, Spinoza speaks to the inhabitants of all societies, including our own. Only in certain political circumstances is it possible to philosophise, and learn to live wisely and well.
The Collected Works of Spinoza, Volume II
The Collected Works of Spinoza, Volume II - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Collected Works of Spinoza, Volume II write by Benedictus de Spinoza. This book was released on 2016-06-13. The Collected Works of Spinoza, Volume II available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The second and final volume of the most authoritative English-language edition of Spinoza's writings The Collected Works of Spinoza provides, for the first time in English, a truly satisfactory edition of all of Spinoza's writings, with accurate and readable translations, based on the best critical editions of the original-language texts, done by a scholar who has published extensively on the philosopher's work. The centerpiece of this second volume is Spinoza’s Theological-Political Treatise, a landmark work in the history of biblical scholarship, the first argument for democracy by a major philosopher, and a forceful defense of freedom of thought and expression. This work is accompanied by Spinoza’s later correspondence, much of which responds to criticism of the Theological-Political Treatise. The volume also includes his last work, the unfinished Political Treatise, which builds on the foundations of the Theological-Political Treatise to offer plans for the organization of nontyrannical monarchies and aristocracies. The elaborate editorial apparatus—including prefaces, notes, glossary, and indexes—assists the reader in understanding one of the world’s most fascinating, but also most difficult, philosophers. Of particular interest is the glossary-index, which provides extensive commentary on Spinoza’s technical vocabulary. A milestone of scholarship more than forty-five years in the making, The Collected Works of Spinoza is an essential edition for anyone with a serious interest in Spinoza or the history of philosophy.
