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1 online resource (xxxiii, 427 pages) : color illustrations. |
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Universal classics library |
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Universal classics library.
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Autograph edition de luxe. |
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Title inclosed in colored ornamental borders. |
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"The philosophy of Spinoza (1632-1677) had its roots in both Bacon (1561-1626) his immediate predecessor and Descartes his contemporary (1596-1650) and, leaving its immediate impress on Leibnitz his successor (1646-1716) even to-day is traceable in schools of thought of widening influence. From Bacon he conceived the idea of a novum organum or new method of learning which should be applicable to the laws of human conduct as well as to the processes of nature. Inspired by the love of Descartes' mathematics he resolved to construct, after the plan of a geometrical science, a complete system of the knowledge of God, of the universe and of man. Human nature, he says, obeys fixed laws no less than do the figures of Geometry. "I will therefore write about planes and solids." And hence it is that we have in Spinoza's "Ethics" a treatise consisting of Axioms, Propositions, and Demonstrations like the Geometry of Euclid. It will be seen that although entitled "Ethics" the treatise covers the whole range of metaphysics, theology, and epistemology, and yet that the ethics forms the culmination of the whole system, inasmuch as it looks to establishing a clear demonstrable nexus between God and the human conduct"--Introduction. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2011 APA, all rights reserved). |
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Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Subject |
Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677 -- Correspondence.
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Philosophy.
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Ethics.
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Philosophy. (DNLM)D010684
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Ethics. (DNLM)D004989
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Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677. (OCoLC)fst00031382
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Ethics. (OCoLC)fst00915833
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Philosophy. (OCoLC)fst01060777
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Personal correspondence. (OCoLC)fst01919948
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Added Author |
Elwes, R. H. M. (Robert Harvey Monro), 1853-1892.
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PsycBooks.
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Print version: Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677. Improvement of the understanding. Washington [D.C.] London, M.W. Dunne [©1901] (DLC) 01013726 (OCoLC)374060 |
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