http://bactra.org/notebooks Cosma's Notebooks en http://bactra.org/notebooks/2004/03/02#spinoza <P>Dutch/Sephardic philosopher and lens-maker. <ul>Recommended: <li>Jonathan Israel, <cite>Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity, 1650--1750</cite> [Largely a treatise on Spinoza's influence] <li>BS <ul> <li><cite>Ethics</cite> [The most helpful translation I've seen in the one translated by Samuel Shirley and edited by Seymour Feldman. The classic Elwes translation is pretty good, though, and <a href="http://www.mtsu.edu/~rbombard/RB/Spinoza/ethica-front.html">online</a>] <li><cite>Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect</cite> [The Elwes translation is <a href="../Spinoza/TIE/">online</a>] <li><cite>Letters</cite> </ul> <li>Harry Austryn Wolfson, <cite>The Philosophy of Spinoza: Unfolding the Latent Process of His Reasoning</cite> [A demonstration of Spinoza's massive debt to the scholastic philosophical tradition] </ul> <ul>To read: <li>Lewis Samuel Feuer, <cite>Spinoza and the Rise of Liberalism</cite> <li>Richard Mason, <cite>The God of Spinoza: A Philosophical Study</cite> <li>Steven Nadler, <cite>Spinoza's Heresy: Immortality and the Jewish Mind</cite> <li>B.S. <ul> <li><cite>Tractatus Politicus</cite> <li><cite>Tractactus Theologico-Politicus</cite> </ul> </ul>