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Benedictus De Spinoza
Books by Benedictus De Spinoza
The Benedict de Spinoza Reader: The Ethics, a Theologico-Political Treatise, on the Improvement of Understanding, Correspondence of Benedict de Spinoz
Translated by R. H. M. Elwes
Benedict de Spinoza's writings laid the groundwork for the 18th century Enlightenment and for modern Biblical criticism. By virtue of his magnum opus the Ethics Spinoza is considered one of Western philosophy's definitive ethicists. Men would never be superstitious if they could govern all their ...
On the Improvement of Understanding
After experience had taught me that all the usual surroundings of social life are vain and futile; seeing that none of the objects of my fears contained in themselves anything either good or bad except in so far as the mind is affected by them I finally resolved to inquire whether there might be ...