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Three philosophical works by the seventeenth-century Enlightenment thinker and author of Ethics.
How to Improve Your Mind
In this earlier work, Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza articulates his view that life is best lived with the supreme happiness of knowing God's infinite love. By extension, all earthly pursuits-including money, fame, and sex-are mere distractions from the greater joy of the soul's quietude.
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Translated by Dr. A. Wolf from the Dutch [version of the author's Tractatus de Deo et homine] and edited and with an introduction by Dagobert D. Runes. Spinoza is today considered the Philosopher of Modern Times, as Aristotle was the Philosopher of Antiquity. In spite of which, he remains the best known and least read of the great thinkers. The Book of God, one of his earliest works, came to light only a hundred years ago in two slightly varying Dutch...
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Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune's greedily coveted favours, they are consequently, for the most part, very prone to credulity.
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The Enlightenment thinker asserts that mental tranquility is achieved through knowledge of God in this brief philosophical treatise.
Seventeenth-century philosopher Baruch Spinoza was one of the most original and important thinkers of his time. His magnum opus, Ethics, influenced generations of great minds from Karl Marx to Ludwig Wittgenstein and George Santayana. In this earlier work, Spinoza articulates his view that life is best lived with the...
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Baruch Spinoza was a Dutch philosopher, one of the great rationalists and philosophers of the 17th century within the so-called Modern Philosophy, alongside René Descartes and Gottfried Leibniz. Spinoza believed that God was the mechanism that moved the Universe, and that the biblical texts were nothing more than symbols that dispense with any rational approach. According to his view, the texts contained therein do not translate the reality that...
7) Ética
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Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) fue un filósofo holandés; uno de los pensadores de la línea racionalista, de la que formaron parte Leibniz y René Descartes. Sus ideas fueron consideradas dañinas por teólogos y religiosos y, como todo hombre que piensa adelantado a su tiempo, Spinoza sufrió muchas persecuciones religiosas y mediáticas. El conservadurismo religioso y filosófico de su tiempo lo hizo vivir en el ostracismo la mayor parte de su vida...
8) Spinoza
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El pensador que mejor supo unir racionalidad y alegría ética-Tratado teológico político-Tratado político.
Sostuvo que el sabio es alegre por definición y se opone siempre a la tristeza, y que sin alegría el pensamiento es menos productivo y creador. Tan lejos del optimismo ingenuo como del pesimismo moral e ideológico, su objetivo fue comprender en vez de juzgar. Serenidad, cautela y honestidad fueron los valores que sustentaron la vida y...
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Baruch Spinoza ha sido llamado el Príncipe de los Filósofos; Hegel dijo de él que la alternativa era: o Spinoza, o ninguna filosofía. Al sentar las bases para la Ilustración del siglo XVIII y la crítica bíblica moderna, incluyendo las concepciones modernas del yo y el universo, llegó a ser considerado uno de los grandes racionalistas de la filosofía del siglo XVII: tuvo el coraje de criticar el tradicionalismo de la religión, para ofrecer...
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Though it first aroused anger and controversy rather than admiration and acceptance, A Theologico-Political Treatise was a landmark in the analysis of theology (with particular reference to the Bible and its Jewish and Christian interpretations) and its relationship to philosophy and politics. Spinoza's scholarly analysis, based on careful study, demonstrated that the Bible was composed by many writers over the centuries - and that even the Pentateuch,...
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Widely accepted as a philosophical masterpiece, Ethics sets out to explain nothing less than the nature of God, the world, and how we should live. Rejecting some of the most deeply held presuppositions of classical and medieval thought, Spinoza makes the radical claim that God and the universe are in fact one and the same, a single substance with infinite attributes.
Ethics is famously complex, its elaborate and self-referential matrix of definitions...