What Baruch Spinoza thinks about taste

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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 dated position, c. 1661–1675, in their own words. Our reading of what Baruch Spinoza has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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1. c. 1661–1675

   Our readingGood and bad are not qualities of things in themselves but notions formed by comparing things with one another

   Their wordsAs for the terms good and bad, they indicate no positive quality in things regarded in themselves, but are merely modes of thinking, or notions which we form from the comparison of things one with another.

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