Arnold Geulincx' Ethics

Both drawing and diverging from the humanistic intellectual climate of his time, French philosopher Geulincx (1624-69) sought to reinvest the classical approach to ethics with an input of Christianity. Wilson, who also translated his Metaphysics recently, presents the first English edition of the Latin De Virtute et Primus Eius Proprietatibus. The work was appreciated for its lyric qualities as well as its doctrines by 20th-century Irish poet Beckett. Annotation c2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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).