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The aim of this study is to examine the concept of love in one of Spinoza’s early writings, the Short Treatise on God, Man, and His Well- Being, in order to explore its origins and significance for Spinoza’s theory as a whole. The starting point of the investigation is to explore the relationship between love and intellect originating in this work and later completed in the Ethics as the well-known amor Dei intellectualis. In contrast to approaches that seek to analyze the differences between the early and mature forms of his theory, this study focuses more on possible continuity of thought and the need to distinguish between different perspectives of Spinoza’s works. On this basis, it seeks to show that the definition of love provided in the Short Treatise loses none of its validity in relation to the definition of love in the Ethics , which can be understood as a redefinition of the earlier concept.