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Ethics (Baruch Spinoza)

A work by Baruch Spinoza, first published in 1677

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  • What korrents draws from it

    Whatever exists is in God, and without God nothing can exist or be conceived, People think themselves free because they are aware of their wishes but ignorant of the causes that make them wish, The mind has no absolute or free will; each choice is determined by a cause, itself determined by another, without end …

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Key facts

First published
16772
Edition korrents quotes
tr. R. H. M. Elwes, 18833
Claims on korrents
81

What korrents draws from it

korrents’ reading of claims quoted word for word from the book; each opens the quote and where it sits.

  1. Whatever exists is in God, and without God nothing can exist or be conceived (opens korrents.com)1

  2. People think themselves free because they are aware of their wishes but ignorant of the causes that make them wish (opens korrents.com)1

  3. The mind has no absolute or free will; each choice is determined by a cause, itself determined by another, without end (opens korrents.com)1

  4. Hatred grows when it is returned, and it can be destroyed by love (opens korrents.com)1

  5. Good and bad are not qualities of things in themselves but notions formed by comparing things with one another (opens korrents.com)1

  6. A free person thinks about death least of all; their wisdom is a meditation on life, not death (opens korrents.com)1

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  1. Ethics (tr. R. H. M. Elwes, 1883) (korrents) (opens korrents.com)
  2. Ethics, Q862816 (Wikidata) (opens wikidata.org)
  3. Ethics (tr. R. H. M. Elwes, 1883) (gutenberg.org) (opens gutenberg.org)

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