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1) The Ethics
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Ethics is a philosophical treatise written by Baruch Spinoza. The book closely resembles Euclid's Elements. At the beginning of Part 1, Spinoza defines key terms and lists axioms. On the basis of these and other definitions and axioms provided in the remaining four parts of the book, Spinoza offers proofs of hundreds of propositions and corollaries, such as "When the Mind imagines its own lack of power, it is saddened by it", "A free man thinks of...
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This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. Baruch Spinoza places freedom as the ultimate aim and central value of the life well lived. His philosophy is marked by the most thorough going naturalism of any of its period, so much so that a number of its central tenets remain a matter of lively debate today.
Spinoza's commitment to the search for a comprehensive understanding of all things inspired Einstein....
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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 some real good having, power to communicate itself, which would affect the mind singly, to the exclusion of all else: whether, in fact, there might...
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