Published shortly after his death, the Ethics is undoubtedly Spinoza’s greatest work – an elegant, fully cohesive philosophical system that strives to provide a coherent picture of reality, and to comprehend the meaning of an ethical life. Following a logical step-by-step format, it defines in turn the nature of God, the mind, the emotions, human bondage to the emotions, and the power of understanding – moving from a consideration of the eternal, to speculate upon humanity’s place in the natural order, the nature of freedom and the path to attainable happiness. A powerful work of elegant simplicity, the Ethics is a brilliantly insightful consideration of the possibility of redemption through intense thought and philosophical reflection.

About Benedict Spinoza

Controversial pantheistic doctrine of Dutch philosopher and theologianBaruch SpinozaorBenedictadvocated an intellectual love of God; people best knowEthics, his work of 1677.People came considered this great rationalist of 17th century.In his posthumous magnum opus, he opposed mind–body dualism ofRené Descartesand earned recognition of most important thinkers of west. This last indisputable Latin masterpiece, which Spinoza wrote, finally turns and entirely destroys the refined medieval conceptions.After death of Baruch Spinoza, often Benedictus de Spinoza, people realized not fully his breadth and importance until many years. He laid the ground for the 18th-century Enlightenment and modern Biblical criticism, including conceptions of the self and arguably the universe.Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegelsaid of all contemporaries, “You are either a Spinozist or not a philosopher at all.”