Spinoza's nature

You don't have to believe in a personal god, an afterlife, or any revealed scripture to live a life of depth, wonder, and moral seriousness. Three and a half centuries ago, a lens-grinder in Amsterdam named Baruch Spinoza worked out, with geometric rigor, what such a life could look like. He was excommunicated by his own religious community for his trouble, and quietly denounced across Europe as an atheist. Yet he wrote, without irony, of blessedness, of love, of eternity, and of the mind's power to free itself.

There is no god to please here, and no creed to recite. There is only the world as it is — vast, intelligible, indifferent to your wishes and yet, Spinoza insisted, understandable. To download, click on the brochure photo and print double-sided, landscape, flip on short end. Once you have printed the document, you can fold the 10 pages down the middle to make your brohure easy to use.