On the Improvement of the Understanding.

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• Benedictus de Spinoza

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• 68 Seiten
• 3 Lesestunden

• 17. Jahrhundert
• Belletristik
• Klassiker
• Philosophisches Thema
• Sachliteratur

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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.

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• Einband: Hardcover