What Baruch Spinoza thinks about discipline

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Dutch philosopher (1632 to 1677), born in Amsterdam's Portuguese-Jewish community; died in The Hague; author of the Ethics and the Theological-Political Treatise.

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1. c. 1661–1675

   Our readingBlessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself; we do not rejoice because we control our lusts, we control them because we rejoice

   Their wordsBlessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself; neither do we rejoice therein, because we control our lusts, but, contrariwise, because we rejoice therein, we are able to control our lusts.

   ↗Ethics (tr. R. H. M. Elwes, 1883)gutenberg.org All 8 from this book