Spinoza’s Ethics - Book Club

This meeting will be dedicated to discussion of the Ethics by Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677). We’ll be reviewing the entire work, with a focus on part I. We recommend the Edward Curley translation (Penguin Edition).

Some supplementary materials are available below:

Behind the Geometrical Method: Chapter One - Curley

Substance - Parts 1 and 2.2-2.4

Principle of Sufficient Reason - Part 1 & 2

Descartes, Principles of Philosophy I.51–56 and I.60–62 (five pages, for those who want to read Descartes explaining his definitions in his own words)