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by Genevieve Lloyd (Author) "Thus did the wardens of the Amsterdam synagogue excommunicate the 24-year-old Baruch Spinoza, on 27 July 1656 ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 176 pages
  • Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (5 Sep 1996)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0415107822
  • ISBN-13: 978-0415107822
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 1.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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`I have read Spinoza and the Ethics with great pleasure and am deeply impressed. It discusses an exceptionally wide range of past and present readings of the Ethics, so that the reader gains a sense of the many angles from which this text has been approached ... It offers an interpretation of the whole of the Ethics, and culminates in a fascinating and nuanced discussion of its final section about the intellectual love of God. Most importantly, it develops a distinctive and insightful account which aims both to do justice to Spinoza'a own philosophical aspirations, and to relate these to our own.' - Susan James, Girton College, Cambridge


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Spinoza is a key figure in modern philosophy. The Ethics is his most studied and well known work Being both up-to-date and clear, this Guidebook is designed to lead the reader through this complex, seminal text.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The Intellectual love of 'Ethics'., 9 Nov 2006
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Spinozas 'Ethics' provides a "witches ride" of a complete philosophical system. It must be one of the most bewildering books ever written. Anybody coming to it unprepared is unlikely to get much out of it, and that would be a shame, because as LLoyd and others emphasise, 'Ethics' is a rich and wonderful work, with genuine modern relevance.

Lloyd's guide is aimed at students and interested readers with some knowledge of the work. Dont expect to read it and understand every word if you have no grounding in philosophy.

If you are new to Spinoza the best thing to do is read Curley's "Beyond the Geometrical Method" and Rogers Scruton's "Short Introduction". Then go for it, read (and re-read) 'Ethics', and enjoy.

Then pick up Lloyd's guide and really start to understand in some detail what 'Ethics' is about.

A brief introduction to the life of this most sympathetic of philosophers is followed by a summation of the treatment meted out to his work contemporaneously and later. He wasn't loved by a world that worshipped a benevolent God possessed of anthropomorphic qualities.

In the section of the Guide called "God, minds and bodies", Lloyd clearly fleshes out Spinoza's 'Metaphysics' and 'Epistemology' in as accessible a form as is possible at this level of analysis. Spinoza's God, it is made clear, is The One Substance, or Nature, and humans are seen as finite modes of The One Substance. It is all that there is, folks, and everything is and flows therefrom by Necessity. No sitting on a cloud showering thunderbolts or Burning Bush stuff for Baruch,( Spinoza's Hebrew name).

More detailed works have pointed out weaknesses in the Theory of Mind but LLoyd is sympathetic to our Hero, castigating other commentators for what she perceives as unjustified criticism in earlier, and doubtless less accessible works than hers.

From Chapter 3 onwards, her work, for me, achieved a clarity and excellence I really benefitted from. By the end of the book I felt that finally, somebody had explained to me what the whole of 'Ethics' ( especially Book 5) was about, in a way I could follow. You can't ask for more.
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