In spinoza s principal book, which is called the ethics and which is written in latin, one finds two words. Among the innumerable treasures the nazis stole from europe during world war ii was a collection of books displayed at the spinoza museum in. Ethics, demonstrated in geometrical order usually known as the ethics, is a philosophical. While spinoza did not condemn marriage, he rejected it for himself, perhaps fearing the ill temper of a woman, and in any case recognizing in matrimony a threat to his scholarly interests.
Two ways of knowing, two ways of living by sanem soyarslan department of philosophy duke university. And then a history, distinguishing the books by the names of. Baruch spinoza was a philosopher of portuguese sephardi origin born in a community of. I will, however, offer the basic material so that the reader may judge whether i am right or not. Spinoza society of canadasociete canadienne d etudes sur spinoza. Bald, banned books, literature suppressed on religious grounds unfree balibar, spinoza and politics unfree bennett, the cambridge companion to spinoza, spinoza s metaphysics unfree damasio, looking for spinoza unfree. In this seminar, deleuze revisits his examination of. The deleuze seminars is a collection of audio recordings, transcriptions, and english translations of, and supplemental materials from, the lectures french philosopher gilles deleuze gave during his career at the university of paris 8. From the beginning the book was under constant attack of the clergy. Project gutenberg offers 61830 free ebooks for kindle, ipad, nook, android, and iphone. Reason and intuitive knowledge in spinozas ethics two.
Spinozas magnum opus, the ethics, was published posthumously in the year of his death. This is a guidebook to the ethics, the major work of the seventeenth century philosopher baruch spinoza. The velocities of thought was a 14lecture seminar given from december 1980 to march 1981. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. Baruchs father, michael spinoza, born in 1587 in vidiger portu. Uncorrected paperswallace matson 4 excellent essays on spinoza start there.
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