Spinoza's ethics is a foundational text in my work because of its radical degree of moral indifference, which I find very admirable. Athough it is centered around the good and the bad, everything is Spinoza is related only to the subjective ability to continue living. To some subject, something is good if it enables life, and bad if it obstructs it. Because of this, self hatred and self destruction become, in a way, impossibilities to the spinozian subject. This relates to the cyberpunk/scifi genre in that machines or extraterrestrial lifeforms that reproduce themselves then are understandable not as a diametric other to human/organic life, but as rightfully existing life in and of itself. (Importantly, even in cases where human type intellegence isn't present.) Flatline constructs is an entire book on this subject -->
Flatline constructs (Gothic Materialism and Cybernetic theory-fiction) is what really sparked my interest in science fiction in the first place.