Books like The correspondence of Spinoza by Benedictus de Spinoza

A comprehensive English edition of Baruch Spinoza’s works, featuring clear translations by Samuel Shirley and a concise introductory essay by Michael L. Morgan that situates Spinoza within Western philosophy, culture, and key intellectual themes.

Review: 'This new translation is designed as a replacement for the old but still widely used translation by Elizabeth Haldane and G. R. T. Ross ... Unlike the Haldane and Ross edition which was translated from a composite text based on both the French and Latin editions, the present translation is made from the Latin text alone, with significant changes in the French edition indicated in the footnotes. This is clearly much more satisfactory. The translation is generally accurate, and is neither excessively free nor excessively literal ... There is little doubt that this will become the standard translation of Descartes' philosophical writings, and it deserves a warm welcome.' French Studies Basics: Based on the new two volume Cambridge edition of the Philosophical Writings, this anthology of essential texts contains the most important and widely studied of the writings.

I. By that which is self-caused, I mean that of which the essence involves existence, or that of which the nature is only conceivable as existent.