Liminanotio

Home/Books/Rationalism

Ethics

Baruch Spinoza

Ethics is 88,533 words — about 5h 54m at 250 words per minute, across 16 chapters. Measure your own speed and read it free, here.

How long does it take to read Ethics?

5h 54m at 250 words per minute

88,533 words · 16 chapters · counted from the full text, not estimated from a page count. Measure your own speed and this becomes your number.

Public domain 16 chapters Tap-to-define
Read Ethics
Cover of Ethics

How it opens

II. A thing is called finite after its kind, when it can be limited by another thing of the same nature; for instance, a body is called finite because we always conceive another greater body. So, also, a thought is limited by another thought, but a body is not limited by thought, nor a thought by body.…

Details

  • AuthorBaruch Spinoza
  • SourceProject Gutenberg #3800
  • Length88,533 words · 5h 54m of reading
  • Chapters16
  • DictionaryIncluded
  • CopyrightPublic domain in the United States
  • Source checked2026-09-06

Contents

16 chapters

Recovered from the original source text, so you can open the book at any of them.

  1. 01Benedict de Spinoza
  2. 02PART I. CONCERNING GOD.
  3. 03PREFACE
  4. 04DEFINITIONS
  5. 05AXIOMS
  6. 06PROPOSITIONS
  7. 07POSTULATES
  8. 08ON THE ORIGIN AND NATURE OF THE EMOTIONS
  9. 09DEFINITIONS
  10. 10POSTULATES
  11. 11DEFINITIONS OF THE EMOTIONS
  12. 12GENERAL DEFINITION OF THE EMOTIONS
  13. 13PART IV:
  14. 14PREFACE
  15. 15PART V:
  16. 16PREFACE

More from Rationalism

Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences

René Descartes
1h 32m

Ethics is free to read on Liminanotio, a word-at-a-time speed reader that runs in your browser, alongside the rest of the public-domain library.