Spinoza's Ethics Part 1, Axiom 3

by Corry Shores
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[the following is quotation; my summary and commentary is in brackets. The Latin text comes last.]

Spinoza, Ethics

Part I "Concerning God"

Axiom III:

III. From a given definite cause an effect necessarily follows ; and, on the other hand, if no definite cause be granted, it is impossible that an effect can follow.

[All causes produce effects, and there is no effect without a cause.]

From the Latin:

III. Ex data causa determinata necessario sequitur effectus, & contra, si nulla detur determinata causa, impossibile est, ut effectus sequatur.

Spinoza. Ethics. Transl. Elwes. available online at:

http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/spinoza/benedict/ethics/index.html

Spinoza. Ethica. available online at:

http://www.hs-augsburg.de/~harsch/Chronologia/Lspost17/Spinoza/spi_eth0.html