Spinoza's philosophical masterwork, written in the rigorous style of geometric proofs, identifying God with Nature itself. It traces a path from metaphysics to a serene ethics of understanding and acceptance.
Sources for Spinoza — Ethics
Spinoza — Ethics in Philosophy
Held in the Philosophy chamber of the Babel Nexus Index.
- Plato — Republic (−375)
- Aristotle — Nicomachean Ethics (−340)
- Confucius — Analects (−475)
- Mencius — Mencius (−300)
- Laozi — Tao Te Ching (−400)
- Zhuang Zhou — Zhuangzi (−300)
- Epictetus — Enchiridion (125)
- Marcus Aurelius — Meditations (180)
- Epicurus — Letter to Menoeceus; Principal Doctrines (−300)
- Hume — An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (1751)
- Kant — Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (1785)
- Bentham — An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (1789)
- Mill — Utilitarianism (1863)
- Nietzsche — Beyond Good and Evil; On the Genealogy of Morality (1886)
- Nietzsche — Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883)