TY  - BOOK
AU  - Spinoza,Benedictus de
AU  - Elwes,R.H.M.
TI  - On the Improvement of the Understanding
AV  - B 
PY  - 1997///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - Philosophy and religion
KW  - Free thought
N1  - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tractatus_de_Intellectus_Emendatione; Release date is 1997-08-01; Produced by an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer. HTML
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N2  - "On the Improvement of the Understanding" by Benedictus de Spinoza is an unfinished philosophical treatise written in the seventeenth century and published posthumously in 1677. Spinoza seeks to formulate a method that would allow the mind to form clear and distinct ideas necessary for its perfection. He examines different kinds of knowledge, explores the nature of doubt, and discusses perception, memory, and intelligence. His approach uniquely connects knowledge with life itself, viewing ideas as active forces rather than static pictures. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1016
ER  -