1st Edition

An Analysis of Baruch Spinoza's Ethics

By Gary Slater, Andreas Vrahimis Copyright 2017
96 Pages
by Macat Library

96 Pages
by Macat Library

96 Pages
by Macat Library

Baruch Spinoza’s Ethics is a dense masterpiece of sustained argumentative reasoning. It earned its place as one of the most important and influential books in Western philosophy by virtue of its uncompromisingly direct arguments about the nature of God, the universe, free will, and human morals. Though it remains one of the densest and most challenging texts in the entire canon of Western... Read more

Ways In to the Text 

Who was Baruch Spinoza? 

What does Ethics Say? 

Why does Ethics Matter? 

Section 1: Influences 

Module 1: The Author and the Historical Context 

Module 2: Academic Context 

Module 3: The Problem 

Module 4: The Author's Contribution 

Section 2: Ideas 

Module 5: Main Ideas 

Module 6: Secondary Ideas 

Module 7: Achievement 

Module 8: Place in the Author's Work 

Section 3: Impact 

Module 9: The First Responses 

Module 10: The Evolving Debate 

Module 11: Impact and Influence Today 

Module 12: Where Next? 

Glossary of Terms 

People Mentioned in the Text 

Works Cited

Biography

Dr Gary Slater holds a DPhil in theology and religion from the Univeristy of Oxford. He is currently a faculty member at St Edwards University, Texas.

Andreas Vrahimis is the author of Encounters between Analytic and Continental Philosophy (2013). He teaches at the Univeristy of Cyprus.