WorkBaruch Spinoza (Benedict de)

Ethica Ordine Geometrico Demonstrata [Ethics]

Ethica Ordine Geometrico Demonstrata [Ethics] (1677) Inferred

Baruch Spinoza (Benedict de) (1632–1677) · 1677

InferredColeridge quotes 'It was a sublime thought of Spinoza that every true virtue is a part of the love, with which God loveth himself.' The work is the Ethics (Ethica, 1677), Part V, Proposition 36, Scholium — Coleridge's paraphrase of a well-known Spinoza aphorism from the Ethics. II) quotes Spinoza's famous formulation.

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Journal December 1836

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“It was A sublime thought of Spinoza that every true virtue is a part of the love, with which God loveth himself.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Journal December 1836." Houghton Library, Harvard University; MS Am 1086; Box 3.

Inferred Coleridge quotes 'It was a sublime thought of Spinoza that every true virtue is a part of the love, with which God loveth himself.' The work is the Ethics (Ethica, 1677), Part V, Proposition 36, Scholium — Coleridge's paraphrase of a well-known Spinoza aphorism from the Ethics. II) quotes Spinoza's famous formulation.