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Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect
Tractatus de intellectus emendatione
An essay on method that opens with one of the most famous autobiographical pages in philosophy: the experience that the goods men pursue—wealth, honour, pleasure—are vain, and the resolve to seek a true good that would give continuous and supreme joy. It distinguishes four modes of perception, analyses the true idea, fiction, falsity and doubt, and seeks the way to direct the intellect towards knowledge of nature. It is the most accessible way into his thought.
Authorship note
Probably written around 1658-1662 and left unfinished; published in the Opera posthuma (1677), whose editors warn that the author never completed it.
Editions and translations
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English
The Ethics; Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect; Selected Letters
Hackett, 1992
Translation: Samuel Shirley
ISBN 9780872201316
Baruch Spinoza
On the Improvement of the Understanding (The Chief Works, vol. 2)
The Conscious LibraryOn the Improvement of the Understanding (The Chief Works, vol. 2)
George Bell & Sons, Londres, 1883
Translation: R. H. M. Elwes
Dominio público; Project Gutenberg #1016.
Latín
Baruch Spinoza
Tractatus de intellectus emendatione, en B. d. S. Opera posthuma
The Conscious LibraryTractatus de intellectus emendatione, en B. d. S. Opera posthuma
Jan Rieuwertsz, Ámsterdam, 1677
Français
Baruch Spinoza
Traité de la réforme de l'entendement (Œuvres de Spinoza, t. III)
The Conscious LibraryTraité de la réforme de l'entendement (Œuvres de Spinoza, t. III)
Charpentier, París, 1861
Translation: Émile Saisset
Dominio público; en Wikisource.
Court traité; Traité de la réforme de l'entendement; Principes de la philosophie de Descartes; Pensées métaphysiques
GF-Flammarion, 1993
Translation: Charles Appuhn
ISBN 9782080700346
Español
Baruch Spinoza
Tratado de la reforma del entendimiento
The Conscious LibraryTratado de la reforma del entendimiento
Alianza Editorial, 1991
ISBN 9788420603254
Tratado de la reforma del entendimiento; Principios de filosofía de Descartes; Pensamientos metafísicos
Alianza Editorial, 2014
Translation: Atilano Domínguez
ISBN 9788420683560
Other works by Baruch Spinoza
- Ethics, Demonstrated in Geometrical Order · 1677
- Theological-Political Treatise · 1670
- Political Treatise · 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
- Nadler, Steven. «Baruch Spinoza». The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, publicado el 29-6-2001, revisión sustantiva del 8-11-2023.
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