Baruch Spinoza (1632--1677) was born in Amsterdam during a period of unprecedented scientific, artistic, and intellectual discovery. Upon its release, Spinoza's Ethics was banned; today it is the quintessential example of philosophical method. Although acknowledged as difficult, the book is widely taught in philosophy, literature, history, and politics. It is designed to be rea...
Baruch Spinoza (1632--1677) was born in Amsterdam during a period of unprecedented scientific, artistic, and intellectual discovery. Upon its release, Spinoza's Ethics was banned; today it is the quintessential example of philosophical method. Although acknowledged as difficult, the book is widely taught in philosophy, literature, history, and politics. It is designed to be read sidebyside with Spinoza's work. As a guide to style, vocabulary, and arguments of the Ethics, this introduction offers a range of interpretive possibilities to prepare students to become conversant with Spinoza's philosophical method and his challenge to conventional thinking.
最能显示一个人的才干和智能者
莫过于训教他人归服于理性之下。
There is nothing by which a person can better show
how much skill and talent he possesses
than by so educating men that at last
they will live under the direct authority of reason.
斯宾诺莎：《论理学》IV，9，附录 Spinoza, Ethics, IV, Appendix IX (查看原文)
没有神或人，除非存心忌妒的人会把人们的软弱无力，
烦恼愁苦，引为乐事，
或将人们涕泣，叹喟kuì，恐惧以及其他类似之物，
即所谓精神薄弱的表征认作德性。
No God and no human being, except an envious one,
is delighted by my impotence or my trouble,
or esteems as any virtue in us
tears, sighs, fears, and other things of this kind,
which are signs of mental impotence;
反之，我们所感到的快乐愈之，
则我们所达到的圆满性亦愈大，
换言之，我们必然参与的精神性亦愈多。
on the contrary, the greater the joy with which we are affected,
the greater the perfection to which we pass thereby,
that is to say,
the more do we necessarily partake of the divine nature.
所以能以物为己用，且能尽可能地欣赏它们
（只要勿因过度而感厌倦，因享受一物而至厌倦），
这是智人分内之事。
To make use of things,
therefore, and to delight in them as much as possible
(provided we do not disgust ourselves with them,
which is not delighting in them),
is the part of a wise man.
如可口之味，醸良... (查看原文)
0 有用 丁萌 2011-05-12 21:27:11
handbook, concise and clear
0 有用 Andyyyz 2024-10-01 13:20:48 美国
-42
0 有用 とし難い 2015-09-09 02:22:30
……难懂，不过很有趣！