Arnold Geulincx Ethics

With Samuel Beckett's Notes
Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-90-04-15467-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 146/1, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 172 mm x 249 mm, Gewicht: 875 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History / Brill's Texts and Sources in Intellectual History

Arnold Geulincx (1624-1669) is a key figure in the history of ideas, whose concepts have been seen as precursors to those developed by Spinoza, Malebranche, Leibniz and Kant.
His Ethics presents a treatment of virtue from the standpoint of occasionalist metaphysics. The great Irish writer Samuel Beckett stated that Geulincx, with his emphasis on the powerlessness and ignorance of the human condition, was a key influence on his works. This is the first complete version of the text to appear in a modern language. It includes the full text of the Ethics and Beckett’s notes to his reading of Geulincx.
Shedding new light on important moments of intellectual history, it is a major event for students of philosophy and literature.

Brill's Texts and Sources in Intellectual History, vol. 1

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ruler, Han van

Uhlmann, Anthony

Wilson, Martin A

Weitere Mitwirkende

Wilson, Martin A.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Translator’s Preface
Introduction
On this Edition, Annotations and Editors’ Notes

Ethics
To the Curators of the University of Leiden
Gracious Reader
Treatise I. On Virtue and its Prime Attributes
Treatise II. On the Virtues Commonly Called Particular
Treatise III. On the End and the Good
Treatise IV. On the Passions
Treatise V. On the Reward of Virtue
Treatise VI. On Prudence
Annotations to the Ethics

Introduction to Beckett’s Notes to the Ethics
Samuel Beckett’s Notes to His Reading of the Ethics by Arnold Geulincx

Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Han (J.A.) van Ruler, Ph.D. (1995) in Philosophy, University of Groningen, is Head of the NWO-project From Erasmus to Spinoza at Erasmus University, Rotterdam. His publications include The Crisis of Causality: Voetius and Descartes on God, Nature and Change (Brill, 1995).

Anthony Uhlmann is Associate Professor in Humanities and Languages at the University of Western Sydney. He has published extensively on the work of Samuel Beckett. He is the author of Samuel Beckett and the Philosophical Image (Cambridge UP, 2006) a work which considers Beckett's debt to Geulincx in detail.

Martin Wilson is a writer and publisher. His most recent work was an English translation of the Metaphysics of Arnold Geulincx (1999).