Gnothi seauton [in Greek type], sive ethica, post tristia auctoris fata omnibus suis partibus in lucem edita, & tam seculi hujus, quam Atheorum quorundam philosophorum impietati, scelestisque moribus, quanquam specioso ut plurimum virtutis praetextu larvatis, opposita, per Philarethum. Cui accessit clariss. Cornelii Bontekoe eruditissimus & utilissimus libellus de Passionibus animae, cum gemina serie rerum, quae utrobique tractantur, per Joh. Flenderum . Editio ultima, ab eodem a mendis amplius centum accuratissime emendata. [ Second part with own title page without imprint:'] Cornelii BONTEKOE, Tractatus ethico-physicus de animi & corporis passionibus .

GEULINCX, Arnold (1624-1669)

Published by Amstelodami [Amsterdam], Janssonio-Waesbergios 1709

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.2 parts in 1 volume. 12mo. [XXXII],437,[1 blank], [VIII],110,[9]p. With engraved frontispiece. Contemp. overlapping vellum. Frontispiece with folds, repair to outer margin and faint offsetting from red lacquer to front free endpaper, tiny repair to printed title. Third edition. First published posthumously by Bontekoe in 1675 with a second edition in 1696. Geulincx was educated in Louvain and there appointed professor of philosophy in 1646, and moved to Leiden in 1658. Geulincx developed an occasionalist philosophy out of Cartesian principles, and many contemporary and modern scholars have pointed out the similarities between his and Spinoza's ethics. Even in one of the laudatory poems in the first edition of this - published two years before Spinoza's Ethica' - both authors are compared: Frustra hic Spinosae quaeras molimina mentis'. Seller Inventory # 32746

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Title: Gnothi seauton [in Greek type], sive ethica,...

Publisher: Amstelodami [Amsterdam], Janssonio-Waesbergios 1709

Edition: 1st Edition