エチカ——第3部
- 言語:
- 英語
- 状態:
- 完全な作品
- 著者性:
- 著者自身による
- テキストの状態:
- 良好なテキスト
- 分量:
- 約 23,200 語 · 110 節
この作品を引用
- APAバールーフ・デ・スピノザ. (n.d.). エチカ——第3部. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ja/works/baruch-spinoza/ethics-part-3
- MLAバールーフ・デ・スピノザ. "エチカ——第3部." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/ja/works/baruch-spinoza/ethics-part-3.
- Chicagoバールーフ・デ・スピノザ. エチカ——第3部. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ja/works/baruch-spinoza/ethics-part-3.
何についての本か
神、精神、感情、自由——完全な体系を幾何学のように論証する。定義、公理、定理が積み重なり、「自由とは必然を理解することである」という思想へ至る。
背景と歴史
スピノザは1675年ごろ『エチカ』を完成させたが、生前の出版は断念した。「神即自然」——神と自然は同一のものである——のスキャンダルは、彼を葬り去っていただろう。書は1677年、死の数か月後に『遺稿集』の一部として世に出て、ほとんど即座に禁書となった。著者はハーグでレンズを磨いて暮らした人であり、二十三歳でアムステルダムのユダヤ人共同体から破門されていた。その破門状の苛烈さは、ついに取り消されることがなかった。一世紀のあいだ「スピノザ主義者」は罵倒の言葉だった。のちにドイツ観念論をはじめ多くの者にとって、あらゆる哲学が己を測るべき山となった。
これは編集上の背景であり、引用できる典拠ではありません。作品本文の一節とは異なり、これらの記述はコーパスで検証できません。
to be treating rather of matters outside nature than of natural phenomena following nature's general laws. They appear to conceive man to be situated in nature as a kingdom within a kingdom: for they believe that he disturbs rather than follows nature's order, that he has absolute control over his actions, and that he is determined solely by himself. They attribute human infirmities and fickleness, not to the power of nature in general, but to some mysterious flaw in the nature of man, which accordingly they bemoan, deride, despise, or, as usually happens, abuse: he, who succeeds in hitting off the weakness of the human mind more eloquently or more acutely than his fellows, is looked upon as a seer. Still there has been no lack of very excellent men (to whose toil and industry I confess myself much indebted), who have written many noteworthy things concerning the right way of life, and have given much sage advice to mankind. But no one, so far as I know, has defined the nature and strength of the emotions, and the power of the mind against them for their restraint. I do not forget, that the illustrious Descartes, though he believed, that the mind has absolute power over its actions, strove to explain human emotions by their primary causes, and, at the same time, to point out a way, by which the mind might attain to absolute dominion over them. However, in my opinion, he accomplishes nothing beyond a display of the acuteness of his own great intellect, as I will show in the proper place. For the present I wish to revert to those, who would rather abuse or deride human emotions than understand them.…