On the Improvement of Understanding

On the Improvement of Understanding
Author: Benedict de Spinoza
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 54
Release: 2012-12-10
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1625583702


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After experience had taught me that all the usual surroundings of social life are vain and futile; seeing that none of the objects of my fears contained in themselves anything either good or bad, except in so far as the mind is affected by them, I finally resolved to inquire whether there might be some real good having power to communicate itself, which would affect the mind singly, to the exclusion of all else: whether, in fact, there might be anything of which the discovery and attainment would enable me to enjoy continuous, supreme, and unending happiness.

On the Improvement of Understanding
Language: en
Pages: 54
Authors: Benedict de Spinoza
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-12-10 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

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After experience had taught me that all the usual surroundings of social life are vain and futile; seeing that none of the objects of my fears contained in them
Improvement of the Understanding
Language: en
Pages: 480
Authors: Benedictus de Spinoza
Categories: Ethics
Type: BOOK - Published: 1901 - Publisher:

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Improvement of the Understanding, Ethics and Correspondence of Benedict de Spinoza
Language: en
Pages: 476
Authors: Benedictus de Spinoza
Categories: Ethics
Type: BOOK - Published: 1901 - Publisher:

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Improvement of the Understanding, Ethics and Correspondence
Language: en
Pages: 465
Authors: Benedict de Spinoza
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-06-01 - Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.

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Most writers on the emotions and on human conduct... attribute human infirmities and fickleness, not to the power of nature in general, but to some mysterious f
Ethics Including the Improvement of the Understanding
Language: en
Pages: 310
Authors: Benedictus de Spinoza
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: - Publisher: Prometheus Books

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In the genre of Christian philosophers, Spinoza presents a geometric argument for the necessary existence of God as the one absolute substance underlying all ot