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Author Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677.

Title Improvement of the understanding : ethics and correspondence of Benedict de Spinoza / tr. from the Latin by R.H.M. Elwes ; with an introduction by Frank Sewall, A.M.

Publication Info. Washington [D.C.] ; London : M.W. Dunne, [©1901]

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Description 1 online resource (xxxiii, 427 pages) : color illustrations.
Series Universal classics library
Universal classics library.
Note Autograph edition de luxe.
Title inclosed in colored ornamental borders.
Summary "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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Subject Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677 -- Correspondence.
Philosophy.
Ethics.
Philosophy. (DNLM)D010684
Ethics. (DNLM)D004989
Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677. (OCoLC)fst00031382
Ethics. (OCoLC)fst00915833
Philosophy. (OCoLC)fst01060777
Genre/Form Personal correspondence. (OCoLC)fst01919948
Added Author Elwes, R. H. M. (Robert Harvey Monro), 1853-1892.
Added Title PsycBooks.
Other Form: 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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