Ethics

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Ethics is Baruch Spinoza’s seminal philosophical treatise that systematically presents his metaphysical, ethical, and theological views in a geometric, axiomatic style.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf book
philosophical treatise
author Baruch Spinoza
centralDoctrine God or Nature (Deus sive Natura)
conatus theory of striving
intellectual love of God
naturalistic ethics
necessitarianism
substance monism
completionDateApproximate early 1670s
contains axioms
corollaries
definitions
demonstrations
propositions
scholia
countryOfOrigin Dutch Republic
dateOfFirstPublication 1677
genre philosophy
hasPart Part I: Of God
Part II: Of the Nature and Origin of the Mind
Part III: Of the Origin and Nature of the Affects
Part IV: Of Human Bondage, or the Strength of the Affects
Part V: Of the Power of the Intellect, or of Human Liberty
includedIn Opera Posthuma
influenced 20th-century continental philosophy
Friedrich Nietzsche
G. W. F. Hegel
German Idealism
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
political philosophy
languageOfWork Latin
mainSubject epistemology
ethics
metaphysics
theology
notableFor integration of metaphysics and ethics
rigorous geometric presentation
systematic presentation of Spinoza’s philosophy
originalTitle Ethica, ordine geometrico demonstrata
philosophicalSchool rationalism
philosophicalTradition early modern philosophy
publicationStatus posthumous
publisherOfFirstEdition Opera Posthuma editors
relatedWork Tractatus Theologico-Politicus
structureStyle axiomatic system
geometric method
writtenInPeriod 17th century


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