Ηθική
Μπαρούχ Σπινόζα, 1677
A landmark work of philosophy that asks how human beings can understand their emotions and become freer through reason.
Feels like curiosity and awe. About morality, freedom and identity.
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The night sky can make an inner law feel just as vast.
Όσο περισσότερο σκέφτομαι, τόσο περισσότερο δυο πράγματα γεμίζουν την ψυχή μου με μεγάλο θαυμασμό και ευλάβεια που αυξάνεται: ο έναστρος ουρανός πάνω μου και ο ηθικός νόμος μέσα μου Καντ Ε. Μπαρούχ Σπινόζα.Spinoza’s Ethics was published posthumously in 1677, the year he died. Its geometric structure presents definitions, axioms and propositions in the manner of a mathematical proof.
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- What is Ηθική like?
- Feels like curiosity and awe. About morality, freedom and identity.
- What should I read after Ηθική?
- If you liked Ηθική, try Dialogues (Plato), Moral Letters to Lucilius (Seneca) and The Genealogy of Morals (Friedrich Nietzsche).
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What if a life were weighed the way gold is weighed?
Pray, let us see to it, my dear Lucilius, that our lives, like jewels of great price, be noteworthy not because of their width but because of their weight. Let us measure them by their performance, not by their duration. Would you know wherein lies the difference between this hardy man who, despising Fortune, has served through every campaign of life and has attained to life’s Supreme Good, and that other person over whose head many years have passed? The former exists even after his death; the latter has died even before he was dead.
Moral Letters to Lucilius · Seneca
If you're only good because someone is watching, is it goodness?
Do you really mean to tell me the only reason you try to be good is to gain God’s approval and reward, or to avoid his disapproval and punishment? That’s not morality, that’s just sucking up, apple-polishing, looking over your shoulder at the great surveillance camera in the sky, or the still small wiretap inside your head, monitoring your every move, even your every base though.
The God Delusion · Richard Dawkins
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