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Ethics, Demonstrated in Geometrical Order
Ethica ordine geometrico demonstrata
His major work, set out like Euclid's geometry, with definitions, axioms, propositions, demonstrations and scholia, in five parts: God; the nature and origin of the mind; the origin and nature of the affects; human bondage, or the strength of the affects; the power of the intellect, or human freedom. It starts from a single infinite substance, God or Nature, of which all things are modes; denies free will and final causes; analyses the passions as natural phenomena arising from the striving to persevere in being; and proposes an ethics of joy and knowledge culminating in the intellectual love of God and the experience of the eternity of the intellect.
Authorship note
Written between c. 1661 and 1675; published posthumously in the Opera posthuma (Amsterdam, Jan Rieuwertsz, 1677) and in Dutch in De nagelate schriften, trans. Jan Hendriksz Glazemaker. A complete manuscript copy predating the printing was identified in 2010 in the Vatican Library (Vat. lat. 12838).
Editions and translations
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English
Ethics
Penguin Classics, 2005
Translation: Edwin Curley
ISBN 9780140435719
Ethics
Oxford University Press, 2000
Translation: G. H. R. Parkinson
ISBN 9780198752141
Baruch Spinoza
Ethics (Everyman)
The Conscious LibraryEthics (Everyman)
J. M. Dent, 1989
Translation: Andrew Boyle, rev. G. H. R. Parkinson
ISBN 9780460871242
Works of Spinoza, vol. 2 (Improvement of the Understanding, Ethics, Correspondence)
Dover Publications, 1951
Translation: R. H. M. Elwes
ISBN 9780486202501
Baruch Spinoza
Ethics (The Chief Works of Benedict de Spinoza, vol. 2)
The Conscious LibraryEthics (The Chief Works of Benedict de Spinoza, vol. 2)
George Bell & Sons, Londres, 1883
Translation: R. H. M. Elwes
Dominio público; Project Gutenberg #3800.
Nederlands
Baruch Spinoza
Zedekunst, en De nagelate schriften van B. d. S.
The Conscious LibraryZedekunst, en De nagelate schriften van B. d. S.
Jan Rieuwertsz, Ámsterdam, 1677
Translation: Jan Hendriksz Glazemaker
Latín
Baruch Spinoza
Ethica ordine geometrico demonstrata, en B. d. S. Opera posthuma
The Conscious LibraryEthica ordine geometrico demonstrata, en B. d. S. Opera posthuma
Jan Rieuwertsz, Ámsterdam (sin pie de imprenta), 1677
Primera edición.
Baruch Spinoza
The Vatican Manuscript of Spinoza's Ethica
The Conscious LibraryThe Vatican Manuscript of Spinoza's Ethica
Brill, Leiden, 2011
ISBN 9789004209268
Ed. Leen Spruit y Pina Totaro; transcripción del manuscrito Vat. lat. 12838.
Français
Baruch Spinoza
Éthique
The Conscious LibraryÉthique
Garnier, 1913
Translation: Charles Appuhn
Dominio público; en Wikisource.
Éthique
Seuil, 1988
Translation: Bernard Pautrat
ISBN 9782020103626
Edición bilingüe latín-francés.
Éthique
PUF, 1990
Translation: Robert Misrahi
ISBN 9782130425670
Italiano
Baruch Spinoza
L'Etica
The Conscious LibraryL'Etica
Paravia, Turín, 1928
Translation: Piero Martinetti
Dominio público; en Wikisource.
Español
Baruch Spinoza
Ética
The Conscious LibraryÉtica
Editora Nacional, Madrid, 1975
Translation: Vidal Peña
ISBN 9788427612532
Ética demostrada según el orden geométrico
Alianza Editorial, 1994
ISBN 9788420602431
Baruch Spinoza
Ética; Tratado teológico-político
The Conscious LibraryÉtica; Tratado teológico-político
Porrúa, México, 1998
ISBN 9789684529670
Ética
Alianza Editorial, 2005
Translation: Vidal Peña
ISBN 9788420635095
Deutsch
Baruch Spinoza
Ethik in geometrischer Ordnung dargestellt
The Conscious LibraryEthik in geometrischer Ordnung dargestellt
Felix Meiner, 1999
Translation: Wolfgang Bartuschat
ISBN 9783787314317
Edición bilingüe.
Other works by Baruch Spinoza
- Theological-Political Treatise · 1670
- Political Treatise · 1677
- Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect · 1677
- Short Treatise on God, Man and His Well-Being · 1660
- Principles of Cartesian Philosophy · 1663
- Metaphysical Thoughts · 1663
- Compendium of Hebrew Grammar · 1677
- Letters · 1677
- Posthumous Works · 1677
- Apology for leaving the synagogue (lost) · 1656
- Treatise on the Rainbow (lost) · 1676
- Dutch translation of the Old Testament (lost) · 1677
- Algebraic Calculation of the Rainbow (doubtful attribution) · 1687
- Calculation of Chances (doubtful attribution) · 1687
- Treatise of the Three Impostors (spurious) · 1719
- Johannes Colerus' Life of Spinoza · 1705
- Spinoza: A Life (biography by Steven Nadler) · 1999
- The Collected Works of Spinoza (ed. Edwin Curley) · 1985
- Spinoza: Complete Works (trans. Samuel Shirley) · 2002
- Spinoza Opera (ed. Carl Gebhardt) · 1925
- Opere (ed. Filippo Mignini) · 2007
Sources
- Spinoza, Benedictus de. Ethica ordine geometrico demonstrata (texto latino en Wikisource, a partir de la ed. bilingüe de Appuhn, Garnier, 1913); The Ethics, trad. R. H. M. Elwes (Londres, 1883), Project Gutenberg #3800.
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