Against the backdrop of fanatic religious conflict and conscious of the blossoming of the exact sciences in the 17th century, Spinoza developed one of the most audacious projects in the history of philosophy: Ethics, Demonstrated in Geometrical Order. This book analyzes each of the five parts of Spinoza's book in three separate essays, along with an introduction that presents the ambitions and historical impact of the Ethics.

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Michael Hampe, ETH Zürich, Schweiz; Robert Schnepf, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg.