ABSTRACT
Spinoza says a number of things about the knowledge of good and evil that appear to be significant for his argument as a whole, but which are by no means all as clear and distinct as they should be. This chapter examines these and certain related passages in order to say something more about Spinoza's meta-ethics than is said by C. D. Broad and others, in the hope that this will be of intrinsic interest to students of Spinoza, of Continental Rationalism, and perhaps even of meta-ethics, besides being of use in understanding and assessing Spinoza's view as a whole. It deals with those passages only insofar as they throw light on his meta-ethics, that is, on his views about judgments of value. The chapter concerns the meta-ethics of judgments of good and evil, not with that of judgments of virtue and vice, which may be somewhat different.
