Ethics (Spinoza)
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Ethics (Spinoza) is Baruch Spinoza’s seminal philosophical treatise that systematically presents his metaphysics, epistemology, psychology, and ethics in a geometric, axiomatic style.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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early modern philosophy work ⓘ philosophical treatise ⓘ |
| author | Baruch Spinoza NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralClaim |
Human freedom consists in understanding necessity.
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There is only one substance, God or Nature (Deus sive Natura). ⓘ |
| completedIn | 1675 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Dutch Republic ⓘ |
| dateWritten | 1660s ⓘ |
| dividedInto |
Part I
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Part II ⓘ Part III ⓘ Part IV ⓘ Part V ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | 1677 ⓘ |
| genre |
epistemology
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ethics NERFINISHED ⓘ metaphysics ⓘ philosophy of mind ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Axioms
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Corollaries ⓘ Definitions ⓘ Demonstrations ⓘ Postulates ⓘ Propositions ⓘ Scholia ⓘ |
| influenced |
20th-century continental philosophy
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Albert Einstein NERFINISHED ⓘ Friedrich Nietzsche NERFINISHED ⓘ German Idealism NERFINISHED ⓘ political philosophy ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | Euclidean geometry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | Latin ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
God or Nature as a single substance
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determinism ⓘ freedom through understanding ⓘ human emotions ⓘ intellectual love of God ⓘ mind–body parallelism ⓘ |
| method | axiomatic method ⓘ |
| originalTitle | Ethica, ordine geometrico demonstrata NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| philosophicalConcept |
adequate ideas
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affects ⓘ attributes and modes ⓘ blessedness ⓘ conatus ⓘ substance monism ⓘ three kinds of knowledge ⓘ |
| philosophicalTradition |
Spinozism
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rationalism ⓘ |
| publicationStatus | posthumous ⓘ |
| publishedIn | Opera Posthuma NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| structure | geometrical order ⓘ |
| title | Ethics NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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