On the Improvement of the Understanding
(Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect)

by Baruch Spinoza [Benedict de Spinoza]

Translated by R. H. M. Elwes




TABLE OF CONTENTS:




1 On the Improvement of the Understanding
3 Of the ordinary objects of men's desires
12 Of the true and final good
17 Certain rules of life
19 Of the four modes of perception
25 Of the best mode of perception
33 Of the instruments of the intellect, or true ideas
43 Answers to objections


First part of method:

50 Distinction of true ideas from fictitious ideas
64 And from false ideas
77 Of doubt