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Book SynopsisThe Oxford Philosophical Texts series consists of authoritative teaching editions of canonical texts in the history of philosophy from the ancient world down to modern times. Each volume provides a clear, well laid out text together with a comprehensive introduction by a leading specialist, giving the student detailed critical guidance on the intellectual context of the work and the structure and philosophical important of the main arguments and explain unfamiliar references and terminology, and a full bibliography and index are also included. The series aims to build up a definitive corpus of key texts in the Western philosophical tradition, which will from a reliable and enduring resource for students and teachers alike. Spinoza''s Ethics is one of the classical texts of philosophy but is also one of the most difficult to understand because of the author''s use of rigorous logical deduction and the geometrical framework within which his ideas are set. In Ethics, he discusses the natu
Trade Review'Thanks to sound methodology and fidelity to the orignal text, this will be an invaluable asset to the scholar.' Bulletin Spinoziste
Table of ContentsPART 1: INTRODUCTORY MATERIAL; PART 2: THE TEXT; ETHICS, DEMONSTRATED IN GEOMETRICAL ORDER; PART 3: SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL
