Short Treatise on God, Man, and His Well-Being

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY AT, AND FELLOW OF, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON, LECTURER ON LOGIC AND SCIENTIFIC METHOD AT THE LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE, AND EXAMINER TO THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON LONDON ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK PREFACE THIS volume is primarily intended to be an introduction to the philosophy of Spinoza. The Short Treatise, though by no means free from difficulties, is well adapted for the pur pose. It contains the essentials of Spinoza's philosophy in a less exacting form than the Ethics with its rigid geometric method. The Short Treatise cannot, of course, take the place of the Ethicsy but it prepares the way for a much easier and more profitable study of it than is otherwise possible. The Introduction and the Commentary provide all the help that the reader is likely to require.