| I. | Of God. |
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| II. | Of the Nature and Origin of the Mind. |
| III. | Of the Origin and Nature of the Affects. |
| IV. | Of Human Bondage, or the Power of the Affects. |
| V. | Of the Power of the Intellect, or of Human Freedom. |
| Translated from the Latin by R.H.M. Elwes (1883) |
| MTSU Philosophy WebWorks Hypertext Edition © 1997 |
| Prepared by Ron Bombardi Department of Philosophy Middle Tennessee State University |
| Notes on the Text |
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This edition of the Ethics utilizes internal hypertext coding to faciilitate the logical analysis of Spinoza's reasoning; because inferences and explications can be easily scrutinized via clickable links to the definitions, axioms, postulates, and theorems of the system, I hope to have compensated, at least somwhat, for various shortcomings in the Elwes translation. The plain text was scanned on a Hewlett Packard 4c flatbed scanner using OmniPage OCR software; subsequent HTML formatting was entered manually. Naturally, comments, criticisms, or contributions are welcome; send email to: Ron Bombardi |
