Ethics — Part 3
By Benedictus de Spinoza
- Release Date: 1677-02-21
- Genre: Philosophy
Description
Ethics-Part Three concerns the nature of the emotions. In it, Spinoza distinguishes between actions and passions, the nature of things to 'endeavor' towards their self-preservation, and understands goodness and badness in terms of pleasure and pain. Desire, pleasure and pain are the primary emotions and all other emotions are combinations of them.