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by Baruch Spinoza, Edwin M. Curley, Stuart Hampshire, Edwin Curley
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Tolle Lege!.
Tolle Lege!. rated it 8 years ago
The best way to read this book is to listen to it. If I were to have read it, I would have dwelled excessively on the axioms, definitions and propositions and would have missed the forest for the trees. Don't worry if you don't get the definition as he gives them. You'll be able to pick them up when...
Reading Adler's List
Reading Adler's List rated it 12 years ago
I’ve never been so ambivalent about a book before. It’s infuriating, but hints at brilliance. It’s fundamentally flawed, but an attempt at perfection. It’s just better than me.Spinoza uses Euclid’s geometric proof process. He applies it to Descartes’ foundation to demonstrate God’s existence and...
Julian Meynell's Books
Julian Meynell's Books rated it 12 years ago
The Ethics is the book I know best in the world having been working on my doctoral thesis on it before I left philosophy. It is not really an accessible work and even professional philosophers can need assistance to understand it. It is written in geometrical style and uses a lot of medieval and C...
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