Baruch Spinoza
 
Ethics
Demonstrated in Geometric Order
 
AND
 
DIVIDED INTO FIVE PARTS,
 
WHICH TREAT

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 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

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Notes on the Text

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.