

Think Least of Death
Spinoza on How to Live and How to Die
Author: Steven Nadler
Narrator: Christopher Douyard
Unabridged: 6 hr 11 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 03/23/2021
Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, Philosophy, Individual Philosophers
Synopsis
In the Ethics, Spinoza presents his vision of the ideal human being, the "free person" who, motivated by reason, lives a life of joy devoted to what is most important—improving oneself and others. Untroubled by passions such as hate, greed, and envy, free people treat others with benevolence, justice, and charity. Focusing on the rewards of goodness, they enjoy the pleasures of this world, but in moderation. "The free person thinks least of all of death," Spinoza writes, "and his wisdom is a meditation not on death but on life."