Book

Ethics

by Benedictus de Spinoza (1632–1677)

18 chapters, about 85,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

1. DEFINITIONS. 300 words
2. AXIOMS. 100 words
3. PROPOSITIONS. 10,200 words
4. APPENDIX: 2,800 words
5. DEFINITIONS 400 words
6. PROPOSITIONS 5,200 words
7. POSTULATES 12,000 words
8. ON THE ORIGIN AND NATURE OF THE EMOTIONS 500 words
9. DEFINITIONS 200 words
10. POSTULATES 16,700 words
11. DEFINITIONS OF THE EMOTIONS 4,200 words
12. GENERAL DEFINITION OF THE EMOTIONS 200 words
13. PREFACE 1,400 words
14. DEFINITIONS. 400 words
15. PROPOSITIONS. 16,900 words
16. APPENDIX. 2,400 words
17. PREFACE 1,400 words
18. PROPOSITIONS. 9,000 words

Ideas discussed in this book

• Courage
• Eternity
• Explanation
• Future
• Good and evil
• Harmony
• Passion (emotion)
• Passions of the Soul
• State of nature
• Veneration

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