The Ethics of Spinoza : The Road to Inner Freedom (Paperback)

from pansociety

Formidable reading; but no list of Pantheist thought can be complete without the leading publication by the founder of western Pantheism.

from Ghost_Boy

Read this book for two reasons: Spinoza is mentioned in all my philosophy introduction comics I have and George Eliot was a follower of Spinoza (I'll get to that later). First off, this book might look like a quick read due to it's page numbers, but it's actually a difficult read. Not only is it...

from ostrom

Difficult, exacting. But I think he got it right.

from CharlesFerdinand

A difficult book but worth it. And if you try the Latin, it is beautifully written (if even more difficult) It is one of the most thought provoking books I have ever read. As such it is much more interesting than the rather facile rationalism of Descartes, although Descartes is, of course much ea...

from MarkBeronte

Published shortly after his death in 1677, Ethics is undoubtedly Spinoza's greatest work-a fully cohesive philosophical system that strives to provide a coherent picture of reality and to comprehend the meaning of an ethical life. Following a logical step-by-step format, it defines in turn the na...