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A profoundly beautiful and uniquely insightful description of the universe, Benedict de Spinoza's Ethics is one of the masterpieces of Enlightenment-era philosophy. Published shortly after his death, the Ethics is undoubtedly Spinoza's greatest work - an elegant, fully cohesive... Read Full Overview

A profoundly beautiful and uniquely insightful description of the universe, Benedict de Spinoza's Ethics is one of the masterpieces of Enlightenment-era philosophy.

Publicada p?stumamente en 1677, la "?tica", obra compuesta como un conjunto de Definiciones, Axiomas, Postulados, Leyes, Proposiciones y Escolios al modo geom?trico, ha sido interpretada por la posteridad, pese a esta supuesta objetividad, de manera multiforme, habiendo despertado,... Read Full Overview

Baruch Spinoza's renowned work, the Ethics ( Ethica, ordine geometrico demonstrata ), stands as a monumental achievement in Western philosophy. Written between 1661 and 1675 and first published posthumously, Spinoza's Ethics outlines his groundbreaking theories concerning the... Read Full Overview

An authoritative edition of George Eliot's elegant translation of Spinoza's greatest philosophical work

ÉTICA: DEMOSTRADA SEGÚN EL ORDEN GEOMÉTRICO Con un enfoque riguroso y un estilo inspirado en la geometría euclidiana, Spinoza construye un sistema filosófico donde todo, incluyendo la moralidad, se deduce a partir de axiomas y definiciones. Explora la relación entre Dios, el... Read Full Overview

The classic masterwork of Benedict de Spinoza, through which he attempts to construct a metaphysical and ethical system using the geometric methods of Euclid. Spinoza begins with definitions and axioms and proceeds to reach numerous conclusions. A tremendously influential work,... Read Full Overview

It therefore follows that, if a given number of individual things exist in nature, there must be some cause for the existence of exactly that number, neither more nor less. For example, if twenty men exist in the universe (for simplicity's sake, I will suppose them existing simultaneously,... Read Full Overview

What does it mean to live an ethical life? For seventeenth-century philosopher Benedict de Spinoza, this question led to a doctrine in which God is present in all things and the human mind is part of God's infinite intellect. Spinoza regarded ethics as a rational system corresponding... Read Full Overview

Sum rgete en las profundas ideas de Baruch Spinoza con " TICA", una piedra angular de la filosof a de la Ilustraci n. Esta edici n en espa ol presenta la magistral exploraci n de la tica, la metaf sica y el racionalismo de Spinoza, meticulosamente demostrada a trav... Read Full Overview