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Ethics

Ethics

Baruch Spinoza · 1677

5 chapters · 201 pages · Original text

Public domain · Project Gutenberg

Chapters

Part I — Concerning God

~70 min · 33 pages

Part II — Of the Nature and Origin of the Mind

~91 min · 42 pages

Part III — On the Origin and Nature of the Emotions

~113 min · 51 pages

Part IV — Of Human Bondage

~111 min · 50 pages

Part V — Of the Power of the Understanding

~53 min · 25 pages

About this text

First published in 1748, this work represents Hume's mature empiricist philosophy — a reworking of ideas from his earlier Treatise of Human Nature.

Hume argues that all knowledge derives from sensory experience and that reason alone cannot establish matters of fact.

Text sourced from Project Gutenberg (public domain).

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