Ethica

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Excerpt from Ethica: Or the Ethica of Reason The following Treatise is the complement of Metapliysica Nova et Vetusta. Accordingly the argument presumes throughout that the Reader has perused that work. Ethics without psychology is empty: without Metaphysics it cannot be Science. I have to thank the critics of the Metaphysica for the reception accorded to it. There is only one remark which, as coming from an eminent philosopher, I would here advert to. He says in a letter to me that there can be no objection to the term "Will, " as I use it, if taken for "Reason in activity." My position, however, is that Reason is itself the product of Will, that the moments of Will constitute Reason. Kant's Vorstellung of Man is "a rational being endowed with Will." The Metaphysica regards him as "a being endowed with Will, and hence rational." In this, as in the former Treatise, I have laboured to be succinct, avoiding seductive byepaths of controversy as much as possible, with a view to concentrate attention on the main line of argument. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.