After addressing God and the nature and origin of the mind and effects, it considers human bondage and human freedom.
The last two propositions in the book assert that morality and religion would be important even if we didn't know the mind to be eternal, and that blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself. It opens with definitions of key terms like "eternity," "substance," "attribute," and "mode." After addressing God and the nature and origin of the mind and effects, it considers human bondage and human freedom. For ten points, name this philosophical work that demonstrates its views in geometrical order, a work of Benedict Spinoza.
The last two propositions in the book assert that morality and religion would be important even if we didn't know the mind to be eternal, and that blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.
The Ethics