On the Improvement of the Understanding

Spinoza's masterpiece, set out like a geometry book with definitions, axioms and proofs. It moves from God or Nature to the human mind, the emotions and the path to freedom through reason.

Baruch Spinoza

The early draft of the Ethics, lost for almost two centuries, in Abraham Wolf's translation. It includes a full life of Spinoza and a commentary that tracks how his ideas on God, mind and happiness took shape.

Baruch Spinoza

The only book Spinoza published under his own name, a geometric restatement of Descartes with his Metaphysical Thoughts as an appendix. Halbert Hains Britan's introduction shows how it leads to his own philosophy.

Baruch Spinoza