This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. Theologico-Political Treatise is the only work of Baruch Spinoza's original philosophy published during his lifetime. The work has three purposes: to defend and bolster religious tolerance, to make a plea for freedom of thought and democracy, and to offer a new approach to the study and interpretation of the Bible and to its political uses. Despite the author's attempt...

El pensador que mejor supo unir racionalidad y alegría ética-Tratado teológico político-Tratado político. Sostuvo que el sabio es alegre por definición y se opone siempre a la tristeza, y que sin alegría el pensamiento es menos productivo y creador. Tan lejos del optimismo ingenuo como del pesimismo moral e ideológico, su objetivo fue comprender en vez de juzgar. Serenidad, cautela y honestidad fueron los valores que sustentaron la vida y...

Three philosophical works by the seventeenth-century Enlightenment thinker and author of Ethics. How to Improve Your Mind In this earlier work, Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza articulates his view that life is best lived with the supreme happiness of knowing God's infinite love. By extension, all earthly pursuits-including money, fame, and sex-are mere distractions from the greater joy of the soul's quietude. Translated by the philosopher and founder...

The Enlightenment thinker asserts that mental tranquility is achieved through knowledge of God in this brief philosophical treatise. Seventeenth-century philosopher Baruch Spinoza was one of the most original and important thinkers of his time. His magnum opus, Ethics, influenced generations of great minds from Karl Marx to Ludwig Wittgenstein and George Santayana. In this earlier work, Spinoza articulates his view that life is best lived with the...

The seventeenth century Dutch philosopher views the ability to experience rational love of God as the key to mastering the contradictory and violent human emotions.

Though it first aroused anger and controversy rather than admiration and acceptance, A Theologico-Political Treatise was a landmark in the analysis of theology (with particular reference to the Bible and its Jewish and Christian interpretations) and its relationship to philosophy and politics. Spinoza's scholarly analysis, based on careful study, demonstrated that the Bible was composed by many writers over the centuries - and that even the Pentateuch,...

Widely accepted as a philosophical masterpiece, Ethics sets out to explain nothing less than the nature of God, the world, and how we should live. Rejecting some of the most deeply held presuppositions of classical and medieval thought, Spinoza makes the radical claim that God and the universe are in fact one and the same, a single substance with infinite attributes. Ethics is famously complex, its elaborate and self-referential matrix of definitions...