Short Treatise on God, Man, and His Well-Being
Benedict de Spinoza
Table of Contents:

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NOTE: This earlier document expresses many of the ideas which Spinoza developed more fully in his masterwork The Ethics.

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The First Book
Treating of God and What Pertains to Him

• Ch.01.That God Exists.
  
• Ch.02.What God Is.
  
• First Dialog.Between the Love, Understanding, Reason, and Desire.
  
• Second Dialog.Between Erasmus and Theophilus.
  
• Ch.03.That God is a Cause of All Things.
  
• Ch.04.On God's Necessary Activity.
  
• Ch.05.On Divine Providence.
  
• Ch.06.On Divine Predestination.
  
• Ch.07.On the attributes which do not pertain to God.
  
• Ch.08.On "Natura Naturans".
  
• Ch.09.On "Natura Naturata".
  
• Ch.10.What Good and Evil are.
  

The Second Book
Treating of the Perfection of Man so that he may be in a position to become United with God

• Pref.Preface.
  
• Ch.01.On Opinion, Belief, and Knowledge.
  
• Ch.02.What Opinion, Belief, and Clear Knowledge are.
  
• Ch.03.The Origin of Passion. Passion arising from Opinion.
  
• Ch.04.What comes from Belief, and on the Good and Evil of Man.
  
• Ch.05.On Love.
  
• Ch.06.On Hatred.
  
• Ch.07.On Joy and Sorrow.
  
• Ch.08.Esteem and Contempt.
  
• Ch.09.Hope and Fear.
  
• Ch.10.On Remorse and Repentance.
  
• Ch.11.On Derision and Jesting.
  
• Ch.12.On Glory, Shame, and Shamelessness.
  
• Ch.13.On Favour, Gratitude, and Ingratitude.
  
• Ch.14.On Grief.
  
• Ch.15.On the True and the False.
  
• Ch.16.On the Will.
  
• Ch.17.On the Distinction between Will and Desire.
  
• Ch.18.On the Uses of the Foregoing.
  
• Ch.19.On our Happiness.
  
• Ch.20.Confirmation of the Foregoing.
  
• Ch.21.On Reason.
  
• Ch.22.On True Knowledge, Regeneration, etc.
  
• Ch.23.On the Immortality of the Soul.
  
• Ch.24.On God's Love of Man.
  
• Ch.25.On Devils.
  
• Ch.26.On True Freedom.
  

Appendices

• Appendix 1.On God.
  
• Appendix 2.On the Human Soul.
  

In notes, A stands for the older manuscript while B stands for the later.
Notes not identified as A or B variant readings are manuscript notes as found in A.
All notes moved to end of paragraph to which referred.

*...* Words between asterisks are in B but not A.
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