Ethics

Ethics (1677) is Spinoza’s enigmatic masterwork that changed philosophy. One of only two published works by the author, with the other published anonymously, the text became a flashpoint for divisions around the nature of god, religion, and nature, as well as a foundation for traditions of western mysticism and spirituality ever since.

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Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677) was a philosopher of Jewish-Portuguese origin, born in Amsterdam, who is widely considered to have forged the foundations of the modern philosophies of postmodernism, poststructuralism, and posthumanism, 400 years ahead of their time. He published two seminal works, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and Ethics.