Author

Baruch Spinoza

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“So they will pursue their questions from cause to cause, till at last you take refuge in the will of God--in other words, the sanctuary of ignorance”
Ethics, Part I, Appendix · Reader
“PROP. LXVII. A free man thinks of death least of all things; and his wisdom is a meditation not of death but of life”
Ethics, Part IV, Prop. LXVII · Reader
“But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare”
Ethics, Part V, Prop. XLII, Note (final sentence) · Reader
Ethics

Baruch Spinoza

1677 · Renaissance Early Modern · Philosophy

Ethics Demonstrated in Geometrical Order is set out like Euclid: definitions, axioms, numbered propositions, proofs, corollaries and the discursive notes (scholia) where Spinoza speaks most freely. Its five parts lead from God to human blessedness.

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