A section of this book asserts that too much love for a thing that is "liable to many variations and that we can never fully possess" is "a sickness of the mind". It defines sensory perception, reason, and intuition as the three types of knowledge, and claims, in its third section, that humans deem things good because they strive for them. This book also claims that everything "strives to persevere its being", a concept referred to as conatus. Its format was influenced by (*) Euclid's Elements, as its propositions are "demonstrated in geometrical order". Thought and Extension are two of the at
A section of this book asserts that too much love for a thing that is "liable to many variations and that we can never fully possess" is "a sickness of the mind". It defines sensory perception, reason, and intuition as the three types of knowledge, and claims, in its third section, that humans deem things good because they strive for them. This book also claims that everything "strives to persevere its being", a concept referred to as conatus. Its format was influenced by (*) Euclid's Elements, as its propositions are "demonstrated in geometrical order". Thought and Extension are two of the attributes of God according to this book, whose final section, "Of Human Freedom", follows its section "Of Human Bondage". Its author was attacked as an atheist because it equates God with Nature. For 10 points, name this magnum opus of Baruch Spinoza.
A section of this book asserts that too much love for a thing that is "liable to many variations and that we can never fully possess" is "a sickness of the mind".
Ethics [or Ethica]