An Everyman Classic.
One of the most beautiful philosophical systems ever created, the 'Ethics' is Spinoza's masterpiece. Written in a highly personal style, it presents to us an ordered vision of the universe as a unified whole - not as a lifeless world of innumerable separate things. Spinoza builds up to conclusions via a series of axioms and definitions with an elegant simplicity reminiscent of ancient geometry. His philosophy underpins a whole era of romantic science, and still provides an alternative to atomistic science.
This volume also contains a translation of Spinoza's 'Treatise on the Correction of the Intellect,' an early work which throws much light on the 'Ethics'.
The most comprehensive paperback edition available, with introduction, notes, and chronology of Spinoza's life and times.
