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Translated by W.H.White and A.K.Stirling. With an Introduction by Don Garrett. Benedict de Spinoza lived a life of blameless simplicity as a lens-grinder in Holland. And yet in his lifetime he was expelled from the Jewish community in Amsterdam as a heretic, and after his death his works were first banned by the Christian authorities as atheistic, then hailed by humanists as the gospel of Pantheism. His Ethics Demonstrated in Geometrical Order shows us the reality behind this enigmatic figure. First published by his friends after his premature death at the age of forty-four, the Ethics uses the methods of Euclid to describe a single entity, properly called both 'God' and 'Nature', of which mind and matter are two manifestations. From this follow, in ways that are strikingly modern, the identity of mind and body, the necessary causation of events and actions, and the illusory nature of free will.

Si hay un filósofo que representa lo que ha sido la Ilustración, éste es sin duda Kant y, concretamente, su obra más universal, la Critica de la razón pura. Con este libro emprende una crítica tan sistemática como demoledora a la metafísica o, para mayor exactitud, a los argumentos con que se sostiene la metafísica tradicional. En esta edición, cuidadosamente revisada, se han introducido notables modificaciones respecto de las anteriores, buscando una mayor precisión en el vocabulario, ampliando el índice analítico e incluyendo introducción, cronología y bibliografía nuevas. Como en las ediciones precedentes, se ha tomado como base el texto de la segunda edición original alemana, con importantes modificaciones respecto de la primera.