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Ethics

Ethics
作者:Benedict de Spinoza
译者:Edwin Curley
出版社:Penguin Classics
出版年:2005-07
ISBN:9780140435719
行业:其它
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内容简介

Published shortly after his death in 1677, Ethics is undoubtedly Spinoza’s greatest work—a fully cohesive philosophical system that strives to provide a coherent picture of reality and to comprehend the meaning of an ethical life. Following a logical step-by-step format, it defines in turn the nature of God, the mind, human bondage to the emotions, and the power of understanding, moving from a consideration of the eternal to speculate upon humanity’s place in the natural order, freedom, and the path to attainable happiness. A powerful work of elegant simplicity, Ethics is a brilliantly insightful consideration of the possibility of redemption through intense thought and philosophical reflection.

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作者简介

斯宾诺莎(163—1677),十七世纪“典型资本主义国家”——荷兰的伟大哲学家,唯物主义者和战斗的无神论者,同时又是一位理性主义的先驱。斯宾诺莎的世界观是在尼德兰资本主义生产关系急剧发展的时期形成的,反映了新兴资产阶级的利益和要求,他的哲学思想应该看作是对资产阶级自由的论证。

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读书文摘

命题三十八假如一个人开始恨他所爱的对象,于是他对它的爱便完全消逝了。那么由于同样的原因,他将因此愈是恨它,比如果他从来没有爱过它还要厉害些,并且他从前对它的爱愈大,则他对它的恨也将愈大。

当我们回忆一物,我们总是趋于用同样的情绪,把它当做即在目前似的去怀想它。但是这种趋势或努力,只要我们是清醒的,总是被我们所回忆着的足以排斥那物的存在的意象所阻碍。……渴望实在是与因所恨之物的不存在而起的快乐相反的痛苦。

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