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On the Improvement of the Understanding: Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect

By Baruch Spinoza

2019-10-08 19:29:23

Tractatus de Intellectus Emendatione (Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect) is an unfinished work of philosophy by the seventeenth-century philosopher Baruch Spinoza, published posthumously in 1677. It is an attempt to formulate a philosophic ... Read more
Tractatus de Intellectus Emendatione (Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect) is an unfinished work of philosophy by the seventeenth-century philosopher Baruch Spinoza, published posthumously in 1677. It is an attempt to formulate a philosophical method that would allow the mind to form clear and distinct ideas that are necessary for its perfection. It contains, in addition, reflection upon the various kinds of knowledge, an extended treatment of definition, and a lengthy analysis of the nature and causes of doubt. He discusses, among other topics, perception, experience, intelligence, memory, and forgetting. Less

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File size43.574 KB
Print pages48
PublisherPublic Domain Books
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-1986404310
Baruch Spinoza (born Benedito de Espinosa; later Benedict de Spinoza; 24 November 1632 – 21 February 1677) was a Jewish-Dutch philosopher of Portuguese Sephardi origin. One of the early thinkers of ...

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