Abbreviations and Note on Editions Used
| CPR | Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason (Kritik der reinen Vernunft) |
| CPrR | Kant’s Critique of Practical Reason (Kritik der praktischen Vernunft) |
| E | Spinoza’s Ethics (Ethica) |
| L | Hobbes’ Leviathan |
| NE | Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics |
| QE | Kant’s An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment? (Beantwortung der Frage: Was ist Aufklärung?) |
| TdIE | Spinoza’s Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect (Tractatus de intellectus emendatione) |
| TP | Spinoza’s Political Treatise (Tractatus Politicus) |
| TTP | Spinoza’s Theological-Political Treatise (Tractatus Theologico-Politicus) |
For full references, please see the Bibliography. All quotations from Aristotle are from the Princeton University Press edition of The Complete Works of Aristotle, Vol. 2 (1984). All quotations from Plato are from the Hackett edition of Plato’s Complete Works (1997). All quotations from Kant are taken from the Cambridge editions (1996–1998). All citations are given in accordance with the standard pagination running in the margins of these translations. Citations of Hobbes’ Leviathan (1994) are given by chapter and section respectively. All quotations from Spinoza are from the Princeton University Press editions of The Collected Works of Spinoza, Vol. 1–2 (1985–2016). All citations of Spinoza’s TTP and TP are given by chapter and section respectively, and are sometimes supplemented by references to Gebhardt’s edition Spinoza Opera (1925) according to the following form: G II/208/25–30 = Gebhardt, Vol. 2, page 208, lines 25–30. Spinoza’s TdIE is cited by section and is sometimes supplemented by references to Gebhardt’s edition Spinoza Opera. References to Spinoza’s Ethics are abbreviated according to the following standard method: Ethics (E), axiom (a), corollary (c), definition (d) before proposition, demonstration (d) after proposition, lemma (L), proposition (p), postulate (post), preface (pref), scholium (s), explanation (exp). Example: E2p7s = Ethics, part 2, proposition 7, scholium. References to the non-geometrically ordered passages from the Ethics are sometimes supplemented by Gebhardt’s edition Spinoza Opera as exemplified above.