The Ethics of Spinoza's Ethics

The heart-essence of his philosophy

Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) was a therapeutic philosopher very much in the tradition of ancient Hellenistic philosophers like the Stoics, Cynics and Epicureans, not to mention the yogi philosophers of India and China. Although he is primarily famous for his theories of God, nature and causality, as well as his radical political thought, all of these thin…