Tropper, Sarah

Spinoza on Ethics and Understanding

by Campbell, Michael, Tropper, Sarah, Cockburn, David, Winch, Peter

fromAnthem studies in Wittgenstein

0 Type: Book

This volume collects together Peter Winch's previously unpublished lectures on the philosophy of Baruch Spinoza. Winch's original interpretation of Spinoza's Ethics sheds new light on the work of one history's most difficultand admired philosophers from a different perspective.

Spinoza on Ethics and Understanding

by Campbell, Michael, Tropper, Sarah, Winch, Peter, Cockburn, David

fromAnthem studies in Wittgenstein

0 Type: Book

This volume collects together Peter Winch's previously unpublished lectures on the philosophy of Baruch Spinoza. Winch's original interpretation of Spinoza's Ethics sheds new light on the work of one history's most difficult and admired philosophers from a different perspective.

In this thesis, I will argue that there are various considerations which drove Leibniz to the adoption of simplicity as a fundamental criterion for substantiality. ‘Simplicity’ seems to be a deceivingly obvious term, but on closer inspection it turns out to be nonetheless in nee…