The Ethics
by Benedict de Spinoza
Publisher: D. Van Nostrand 1888
ISBN/ASIN: 1604591420
ISBN-13: 9781604591422
Number of pages: 386
Description:
Spinoza uses the methods of Euclid to describe a single entity, properly called both 'God' and 'Nature', of which mind and matter are two manifestations. From this follow, in ways that are strikingly modern, the identity of mind and body, the necessary causation of events and actions, and the illusory nature of free will.
Download or read it online for free here:
Download link
(multiple formats)
Similar books
A Treatise of Human Natureby David Hume - Project Gutenberg
Useful far beyond the small circle of scholarly experts. The Treatise has a fair claim to be the most important philosophical text ever written in English. After more than 250 years, Hume is still at the front line of philosophical inquiry.
(14591 views)
Aristotle on the Goals and Exactness of Ethicsby Georgios Anagnostopoulos - University of California Press
The book offers the systematic critical examination of Aristotle's views on the exactness of ethics. The author gives form to Aristotle's belief that knowledge of matters of conduct can never be free of certain kinds of inexactness.
(10420 views)
Ethics for A-Levelby Mark Dimmock, Andrew Fisher - Open Book Publishers
Key ideas in the fields of normative ethics, metaethics and applied ethics are explained rigorously and systematically. Individual theories are discussed in detail, before these positions are applied to a wide range of contemporary situations.
(7252 views)
Perception in Aristotle's Ethicsby Eve Rabinoff - Northwestern University Press
The book seeks to demonstrate that living an ethical life requires a mode of perception that is best called ethical perception. Eve Rabinoff argues that the faculty of perception is informed by intellect and has an ethical dimension ...
(5637 views)