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Why did Spinoza delay publishing Ethics after completing it in 1675?
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Benedict de Spinoza
Benedict de Spinoza.
Benedict de Spinoza completed a five-part version of his masterpiece, the Ethics, by 1675. He chose to delay its publication after receiving advice that the work would likely provoke even greater controversy than his earlier Tractatus Theologico-Politicus.1
The Ethics was ultimately published posthumously in 1677, alongside his Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect and the unfinished Tractatus Politicus, at the urging of his Collegiant friends.1