Great Books of Philosophy and Theology

Descartes/Spinoza (Vol. 31)

Here is a list of the works of Decartes and Spinoza that are contained in the Great Books of the Western World, published by Encyclopedia Britannica. If a selection is clickable, it means that this amateur has read at least enough of it to make a comment or two:

Rene Decartes (1596-1650)

• Rules for the Direction of the Mind
• Discourse on the Method
• Meditations on First Philosophy
• Objections against the Meditations and Replies
• The Geometry

• Ethics
  1. Of God
  2. Of the Nature and Origin of the Mind
  3. Of the Origin and Nature of the Affects
  4. Of Human Bondage or of the Strength of the Affects
  5. Of the Power of the Intellect, or of Human Liberty