Description: Ethics : Ethica Ordine Geometrico Demonstrata, Paperback by Spinoza, Benedictus de; Elwes, R. H. M., ISBN 1535321679, ISBN-13 9781535321679, Brand New, Free shipping in the US The Ethics - Ethica Ordine Geometrico Demonstrata - by Benedict de Spinoza - Translated from the Latin by R. H. M. Elwes. Ethics, Demonstrated in Geometrical Order (Latin: Ethica, ordine geometrico demonstrata), usually known as the Ethics, is a philosophical treatise written by Benedict de Spinoza. It was first published in is perhaps the most ambitious attempt to apply the method of Euclid in philosophy. Spinoza puts forward a small number of definitions and axioms from which he attempts to derive hundreds of propositions and corollaries, such as "When the Mind imagines its own lack of power, it is saddened by it", "A free man thinks of nothing less than of death", and "The human Mind cannot be absolutely destroyed with the Body, but something of it remains which is eternal." The Euclidean style is larded with stretches of informal and at times pugnacious to Spinoza, God is Nature and Nature is God. This is his Pantheism. In his previous book, Tractatus Theologico-Politicus, Spinoza discussed the inconsistencies that result when God is assumed to have human characteristics. In the third chapter of that book, he stated that the word "God" means the same as the word "Nature". He wrote: "Whether we say ... that all things happen according to the laws of nature, or are ordered by the decree and direction of God, we say the same thing." He later qualified this statement in his letter to Oldenburg by abjuring Materialism. Nature, to Spinoza, is a metaphysical Substance, not physical matter. In this posthumously published book Ethics, he equated God with nature by writing “God or Nature” four times. “...[F]or Spinoza, God or Nature—being one and the same thing—just is the whole, infinite, eternal, necessarily existing, active system of the universe within which absolutely everything exists. This is the fundamental principle of the Ethics....”
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Book Title: Ethics : Ethica Ordine Geometrico Demonstrata
Number of Pages: 160 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: CreateSpace
Item Height: 0.4 in
Publication Year: 2016
Topic: Political
Genre: Philosophy
Item Weight: 13.2 Oz
Item Length: 10 in
Author: Benedictus De Spinoza
Item Width: 7 in
Book Series: Benedict De Spinoza Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
