Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the books youve read. Thomas hobbes y baruch spinoza at ideas y movimientos. Spinozas magnum opus, the ethics, was published posthumously in the year of his. Thriftbooks sells millions of used books at the lowest everyday prices. If an object exists, it must be infinite, because otherwise another, finite, object would have to exist and take. We publish works in the fields of philosophy, religion, and ethics by past and contemporary authors who have something significant to say about the human. In calling something cause of itself i mean that its essence involves existence, i. Although it was published posthumously in 1677, it is his most famous work, and is considered his magnum opus. Baruch spinoza was a dutch philosopher of portuguese sephardi origin. In fact, the dutch regent patriciate turned nonintervention in politics into a fine art. Whether youve loved the book or not, if you give your honest and detailed thoughts then people will find new books that are right for them. On the improvement of the understanding the ethics.
Spinoza then begins to reason from these starting ideas. Written by the philosopher and pantheist baruch spinoza, the theologicopolitical treatise or tractatus theologicopoliticus was an early criticism of religious intolerance and a defense of secular government. Spinoza and the golden age of the dutch republic dbnl. Spinoza, a theologicopolitical treatise forgotten books. I now pass on to the remaining books of the old testament. How to solve lifes problems applying the ideas of spinoza and gregory grover 4. All our modern philosophers, though often perhaps unconsciously, see through the glasses which baruch spinoza ground. We personally assess every book s quality and offer rare, outofprint treasures.
Also included are selections from other works by spinoza, chosen by curley to make the ethics easier to understand, and a substantial introduction that gives an overview of spinozas life and the main. Concerning the two books of chronicles i have nothing particular or important to remark, except that they were certainly written after the time of ezra, and possibly after the restoration of the temple by judas maccabaeus 19. That these books have not been thoroughly revised and made to agree. Baruch spinoza the book of life the school of life. But for the layman those books are often extremely boring, if not totally. Of all the philosophers of the seventeenth century, spinoza is among the most relevant today.