On the Improvement of Understanding

by Benedict de Spinoza

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After experience had taught me that all the usual surroundings of social life are vain and futile; seeing that none of the objects of my fears contained in themselves anything either good or bad, except in so far as the mind is affected by them, I finally resolved to inquire whether there might be some real good having power to communicate itself, which would affect the mind singly, to the exclusion of all else: whether, in fact, there might be anything of which the discovery and attainment would enable me to enjoy continuous, supreme, and unending happiness.
  • ISBN10 1633841057
  • ISBN13 9781633841055
  • Publish Date 4 July 2014 (first published 29 May 2008)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Imprint A&D Books
  • Format eBook
  • Language English