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The Ethics

The Ethics

Spinoza, Benedict De
de Spinoza, Benedict

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Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Philosophy

PhilosophyReligion General

Publisher Price: $11.00

ISBN10: 0486827658
ISBN13: 9780486827650
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: Nov 14 2018
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
What does it mean to live an ethical life? For seventeenth-century philosopher Benedict de Spinoza, this question led to a doctrine in which God is present in all things and the human mind is part of God's infinite intellect. Spinoza regarded ethics as a rational system corresponding to the rational nature of the universe and employed a deductive method derived from Euclidean geometry to show that the validity of ethical ideas can be demonstrated by a mathematical style argument. His conclusion: to be guided by reason is to live freely, motivated by love and goodwill rather than fear or hatred.
These ideas challenged both conventional views of God and the related social and political structure. Reviled by the religious authorities of his native Amsterdam, Spinoza remained an uncompromising model of intellectual courage. His vision, published posthumously as The Ethics, has served as an inspiration to Enlightenment philosophers, Romantic poets, and generations of thinkers.

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