Focus Philosophical Library translations are close to and are non-interpretative of the original text, with the notes and a glossary intending to provide the reader with some sense of the terms and the concepts as they were understood by Spinoza s immediate audience.

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The only complete edition in English of Baruch Spinoza's works, this volume features Samuel Shirley s preeminent translations, distinguished at once by the lucidity and fluency with which they convey the flavor and meaning of Spinoza s original texts.

Michael L. Morgan provides a general introduction that places Spinoza in Western philosophy and culture and sketches the philosophical, scientific, religious, moral and political dimensions of Spinoza s thought. Morgan s brief introductions to each work give a succinct historical, biographical, and philosophical overview. A chronology and...

"The Political Treatise," Spinoza's final work, is a largely theoretical inquiry into the fundamental principles of political philosophy. This edition offers an exceptional translation by Samuel Shirley and a prefatory essay by Douglas Den Uyl that discusses why the "Political Treatise" deserves the attention of contemporary scholars. Steven Barbone and Lee Rice provide ample notes, a substantial bibliography, complete indexes of names and terms, and a comprehensive general introduction, which considers the evolution of Spinoza's political thought in the context of the political and...

Since their publication in 1982, Samuel Shirley's translations of Spinoza's "Ethics" and "Selected Letters" have been commended for their accuracy and readability. Now with the addition of his new translation of "Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect" this enlarged edition will be even more useful to students of Spinoza's thought.

Designed to facilitate a thoughtful and informed reading of Spinoza's "Ethics," this anthology provides the "Ethics," related writings, and two valuable appendices: List of Propositions from the "Ethics," which helps readers to trace the development of key themes; and Citations in Proofs, a list of all the propositions, corollaries, and scholia in the Ethics, together with all the definitions, axioms, propositions, corollaries, and scholia to which Spinoza refers in the proofs--thus, readers can locate, for a given item, each instance where Spinoza refers to it.