Open access publications 51529 freely accessible full text publications. In the event things got worse, and spinoza gave up the idea of publishing the ethics, believing that it would create such a cloud of hostility as to obscure, in the minds even of reasonable people, the real meaning of its arguments. Baruch spinoza was a philosopher of portuguese sephardi origin born in a community of. It covers all aspects of the ethics rigorously while remaining accessible to all but the absolute beginner. Spinozas magnum opus, the ethics, was published posthumously in the year of his death. Spinoza himself very well knows this aspect of human nature and thus says in his book, theologico political treatise men would never be. In the book, spinoza became the first to argue that the bible is not literally the word of god but rather a work of human literature. Ethics spinoza, benedict, hampshire, stuart, curley. This item appears in the following collections faculty of philosophy, theology and religious studies 9754.
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