Principia philosophiae cartesianae

Principia philosophiae cartesianae or Renati Descartes principia philosophiae, more geometrico demonstrata is a philosophical work of Baruch Spinoza published in Amsterdam in 1663. In the preface to this work, Ludovic Meyer explains that it is a reconstruction of René Descartes' Principles of Philosophy in the Euclidean or "geometric" fashion. In the appendix, a series of non-geometric prose passages entitled Metaphysical Thoughts, Spinoza explicates Descartes' views on traditional metaphysical topics while furtively interpolating some of his own.

English translations

Unlike other works by Spinoza, this text has only rarely been translated into English.

1985 by Edwin Curley, in the first volume of The Collected Works of Spinoza .
1998 by Samuel Shirley, with an Introduction and notes by Steven Barbone y Lee Rice. Later added to the edition of Spinoza's Complete Works in one volume, with introduction and notes by Michael L. Morgan.