[10,000 words] Introduction -- Book I -- Book II -- Book III -- Book IV We've finally arrived at the climax of the book! I won't keep you waiting any longer -- let's get right to it. Preface I pass, finally, to the remaining part of the Ethics, which concerns the means, or way, leading …
Continue reading Spinoza’s Ethics: Book V – Of Human Freedom
[9000 words] Oh God. What have I gotten myself into? No, it's OK David, it's OK -- you can do it. Alright. Lemme just paste in Spinoza's own introduction. I pass now to explaining those things which must necessarily follow from the essence of God, or the infinite and eternal being -- not, indeed, all …
[7000 words] OK. We gotta start somewhere, and I suppose this is it. So in the early 1600s, this guy called Descartes comes along and thinks about things and figures that basically everything can be boiled down to two substances. A substance is what something basically can be boiled down to. So, take a block …
[2000 words] The Ethics is a book which was published in 1677. It was written by Baruch, or Benedict, Spinoza. His first name means "Blessed". His surname means "Thorny", or, if you will, "spiky", or even "prickly". In other words: he's one of the most beautiful things to ever happen on this planet, but he …
