Ethics — Part 3 - Benedictus de Spinoza

Ethics — Part 3

By Benedictus de Spinoza

  • Release Date: 1677-02-21
  • Genre: Philosophy

Description

Ethics-Part Three concerns the nature of the emotions. In it, Spinoza distinguishes between actions and passions, the nature of things to 'endeavor' towards their self-preservation, and understands goodness and badness in terms of pleasure and pain. Desire, pleasure and pain are the primary emotions and all other emotions are combinations of them.

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