The Ethics (Spinoza)

English Translations

  • 1856 by George Eliot, unpublished until 1981 (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, University of Salzburg, Austria); edited by Thomas Deegan. New edition with an introduction and notes by Clare Carlisle (Princeton University Press, 2020).
  • 1870 by Robert Willis, in Benedict de Spinoza: His Life, Correspondence, and Ethics (Trübner & Co., London).
  • 1884 by R. H. L. Elwes, in the second volume of The Chief Works of Spinoza (George Bell & Sons, London). Many reprints and editions until today.
  • 1910 by Andrew Boyle, with an Introduction by George Santayana (Dens & Sons, London); some reprints since then. Revised by G. H. R. Parkinson and newly edited as a part of the Oxford Philosophical Texts (London, 1989).
  • 1982 by Samuel Shirley (Hacket Publications), with Spinoza's selected Letters. Added to his translation of the Complete Works, with introduction and notes by Michael L. Morgan (also Hacket Publications, 2002).
  • 1985 by Edwin Curley, in the first volume of The Collected Works of Spinoza (Princeton University Press). Separatly reissued by Penguin Classics (2005), and with a selection of the Letters and other texts in A Spinoza Reader (Princeton University Press, 1994).
  • 2018 by Michael Silverthorne and Matthew J. Kisner in the Cambridge Texts in History of Philosophy series.

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