On The Improvement Of The Understanding by Baruch de Spinoza
The work outlines a program for correcting and perfecting the human mind by identifying and removing inadequate ideas and false beliefs and by building knowledge from clear, distinct ideas and first causes; it criticizes reliance on authority and imagination, analyzes the role of language and signs, distinguishes three kinds of knowledge—imagination (opinion), reason (demonstrative knowledge), and intuitive knowledge—and proposes a disciplined method of careful definition, demonstration, and attention to causal relations that aims to produce adequate ideas, secure true knowledge, and promote intellectual freedom and blessedness.
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- Published
- 1677
- Nationality
- Dutch
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- Original Language
- Latin
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- De Intellectus Emendatione
- Tractatus de Intellectus Emendatione
- Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect
- Treatise on the Improvement of the Understanding
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