Ethics

This is an abridged reprint in gender-neutral language of a 19th century translation of Ethica Ordine Geometrico Demonstrata by Benedict de Spinoza (Baruch Spinoza 1632-1677) first published in 1677. The 1883 translation by William Hale White (1831-1913) was rendered gender-neutral by Dr. Maja Trochimczyk. This second volume of Moonrise Press's Classic Wisdom Book Series consists of five parts: I. Of God; II. Of The Nature and Origin of the Mind III. Of The Origin and Nature of the Affects; IV. Of Human Bondage or of the Strength of the Affects. And V. Of The Power of the Intellect or Of Human Liberty. Born in a Jewish-Portuguese family in Amsterdam in 1621 at 23 Spinoza was expelled from the Jewish community and is buried in a Christian church in The Hague (he died at 44 in 1677). He was neither Jewish nor Christian in his views and from today’s perspective may be called one of the Classics of Awakened Wisdom aware of the intrinsic unity of the Universe with God the Source of all.