Benedictus de Spinoza Libri

Edwin Curley's edition of Spinoza's work presents a groundbreaking translation that balances philosophical insight with readability, making complex ideas accessible to English-speaking readers. His meticulous notes reflect the latest textual scholarship, enhancing the reader's understanding. Additionally, a multilingual glossary-index aids in navigating Spinoza's unique vocabulary. This comprehensive edition is poised to become a vital resource for both students and scholars, ensuring its relevance for years to come.

The book is a rare facsimile reprint of an original antiquarian work, preserving its historical significance. It may feature imperfections typical of aged publications, including marks and notations. This edition aims to protect and promote cultural literature by providing an accessible, high-quality version that remains faithful to the original text.

How to Improve Your Mind is an engaging philosophical text by master Enlightenment thinker Baruch Spinoza. This edition includes exclusive commentary and biographical notes written by Philosophical Library's founding publisher, Dagobert D. Runes.Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677) is heralded as one of the most influential and radical philosophers of the Enlightenment. An expert on the Talmud and Jewish scriptures, Spinoza is known for his moral philosophy and his views on theology and ethics. He devoted his life to the study of philosophy and Judaism and wrote several philosophical texts throughout his career, including his most extensive and famous tome, Ethics.

The book is a facsimile reprint of a scarce antiquarian work, preserving its historical significance despite potential imperfections like marks and flawed pages. It aims to protect and promote cultural literature by offering an affordable, high-quality modern edition that remains true to the original.

Designed to facilitate a reading of Spinoza's Ethics, this anthology includes the Ethics, and Spinoza's related writings along with two appendices: List of the Propositions from the Ethics, which traces the development of key themes; and Citations in Proofs, a list of the propositions, corollaries, and scholia in the Ethics.

An anthology of the work of Baruch de Spinoza which presents the text of Spinoza's masterwork, the Ethics. It also includes selections from other works by Spinoza, and an introduction that gives an overview of Spinoza's life and the main themes of his philosophy.

Published shortly after his death, the Ethics is undoubtedly Spinoza's greatest work—an elegant, fully cohesive cosmology derived from first principles, providing a coherent picture of reality, and a guide to the meaning of an ethical life. Following a logical step-by-step format, it defines in turn the nature of God, the mind, the emotions, human bondage to the emotions, and the power of understanding—moving from a consideration of the eternal, to speculate upon humanity's place in the natural order, the nature of freedom and the path to attainable happiness. A powerful work of elegant simplicity, the Ethics is a brilliantly insightful consideration of the possibility of redemption through intense thought and philosophical reflection. The Ethics is presented in the standard translation of the work by Edwin Curley. This edition also includes an introduction by Stuart Hampshire, outlining Spinoza's philosophy and placing it in context.

Sheds light not only on Spinoza's debt to Descartes but also on the development of Spinoza's own thought. This title appends Lodewijk Meyer's inaugural dissertation on matter (1683) - relevant for its comments on Descartes, Spinoza, and other thinkers of the time - with notes and a short commentary.