Arnold Geulincx Ethics With Samuel Beckett's Notes

• Other Authors: van Ruler, Han (Editor), Uhlmann, Anthony (Editor), Wilson, Martin A. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Brill 2006
• Subjects: European history; History of ideas; Beckett; Cartesianism; early; ethics; history; literature; modern; moral; occasionalism; philosophy; psychology; rationalism; religion; Spinozism; studies
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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 Bec...