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Aristotle

The Ethics Paperback Book

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Classic Spinoza philosophical treatise
Explores God-cosmos relationship deeply
234 pages of rationalist thought
Paperback binding for portability
Examines virtue and human emotions
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Baruch Spinoza composed a philosophical work titled The Ethics in Latin. The book is a comprehensive attempt to use Euclids technique in philosophy. The link between God and the cosmos is discussed in the first section of the book. Additionally, he contends that the cosmos is what it is due to necessity rather than divine will or a religious explanation. According to this perspective, rather than being Gods creation, the cosmos is made of God. The human mind and how we come to understand our ideas, as well as those of other bodies, are the main topics of the second section. According to Spinoza, we cannot know our minds any more intimately than we know our bodies. Spinoza contends that all things, including people, try to maintain their perfection of power in being unaffected in the third section of his Ethics. According to Spinoza, power and virtue are equivalent. The fourth section examines human emotions, which, according to Spinoza, are mental faculties that lead us to seek out and avoid pleasure and misery. The fifth section makes the case that reason can control the effects of the pursuit of virtue, which for Spinoza is selfpreservation. Only with reasons help can people tell which passions are beneficial to virtue from those that are ultimately destructive.

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Binding: Paperback;234 pages; Publisher: Repro India Limited; Classification: HPQ; Weight: 421 g; Dimensions: 216 x 140 x 17

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