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Ethics

Spinoza·Latin

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Written in geometric form with definitions, axioms, and proofs. Argues that God and Nature are identical, that everything is necessary, and that freedom is understanding necessity.

By God I understand a being absolutely infinite, that is, a substance consisting of infinite attributes, each of which expresses eternal and infinite essence.

Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

Things could not have been produced by God in any manner or in any order different from that which in fact exists.

The human mind cannot be absolutely destroyed with the body, but there remains of it something which is eternal.

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