Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the spinoza-tie group. File :...
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Jan 23, 2001 8:54 pm
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Hi SunHunter9, I had trouble viewing the uploaded file. Maybe a more universally readable form would have been plain ASCII text where only the line endings ...
Terry Neff
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Jan 24, 2001 4:31 am
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... Good suggestion. After several unsatisfactory attempts to get things right with ASCII text, I have now settled upon html. as the best file type available...
SunHunter9@...
Jan 24, 2001 11:08 pm
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Great Idea! It's even better than plain ASCII since the HTML allows for formatting and any web browser on any platform should display it just fine. I was even...
Terry Neff
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Jan 25, 2001 12:22 am
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Hi SunHunter9, Charles, and other list members, Having read "Imagination and the Inverse Ratio of Transformation" for a third time a few thoughts occurred to...
Terry Neff
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Jan 25, 2001 9:07 pm
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... I fully agree with this, but I don't see the relevance to any issue at hand. Since we're on the subject though, I think there are usefully different ...
SunHunter9@...
Jan 28, 2001 2:49 am
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SunHunter9, ... hand. I can't account for your not seeing any relevance. Perhaps arrogance does equal blindness on both our parts. Terry...
Terry Neff
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Jan 28, 2001 5:15 am
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Hi SunHunter9, ... how ... be ... obstinacy. ... of ... So, when Spinoza wrote: ========== "But one may take any view one likes of the imagination so long as...
Terry Neff
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Jan 28, 2001 6:43 am
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Hi SunHunter9, I've given the essay a fourth read since you seem so insistent that it provides vital information. A few points, which at first I read through...
Terry Neff
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Jan 28, 2001 9:39 pm
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... "...when passive perceptions in turn become the object of a "clear and distinct conception" (active idea, or adequate idea determined from within), that is...
SunHunter9@...
Jan 31, 2001 2:20 am
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Hi SunHunter9, You've finally succeeded in losing me completely. Your reply seems quite unintelligible. Maybe others will find it helpful in their endeavour to...
Terry Neff
tneff@...
Jan 31, 2001 3:26 am
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... "Loosing you completely" was not the intent of my effort in drafting a reply to the couple of questions I separated from the many you posed in a flurry of ...
SunHunter9@...
Feb 1, 2001 12:38 am
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Hi SunHunter9, Again, I can barely make anything intelligible out of this "rigorous verbiage." It seems to me that many of the phrases and examples are being ...
Terry Neff
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Feb 1, 2001 4:48 am
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... Your lack of specifics, in the sense of presenting any particular "sticking points," prevents any dialectic process from occurring. A good deal of what ...
SunHunter9@...
Feb 1, 2001 7:28 pm
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Hi SunHunter9, The tone of your last post (as I perceive it) seems a little less arrogant to me and that's a positive sign. There is, at this time, nothing...
tneff@...
Feb 1, 2001 8:45 pm
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Hello Friends,One of the members requested an example of an Idea without words.Since this space is dedicated to the TIE an illustration using Spinoza's example...
Charles M. Saunders
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Feb 9, 2001 2:45 pm
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Hi All, ... I tell you about my having approached a particular tree in the park and hearing the tree talking. Later you are walking in the park and as you...
tneff@...
Feb 9, 2001 8:18 pm
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... Endeavoring to express ideas without using words can obviously be a very creative pursuit. I was just playing a couple of Bach Inventions, which are fine...
SunHunter9@...
Feb 11, 2001 12:26 am
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Hello: If the human is God (everything is God in Spinoza), and there is not free will, what is the sense of the ethics? Thanks Rafael...
rafarolo@...
Mar 26, 2001 7:24 am
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In a message dated 3/26/2001 1:25:20 AM Central Standard Time, ... Hello Rafael, I have always taken Spinoza to be in line with ancient Stoicism. Because we ...
HSigerson@...
Mar 26, 2001 12:20 pm
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... I wouldn't say that a human is God any more than I would say that a wave is the ocean. Ultimately, there is no free will. However, from a narrow...
Blake McBride
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Mar 28, 2001 8:54 pm
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Yes, I know, "not cry, not to get angry, but understand" But why the ethics? If we are determined why should we have the ethics??? Rafael ... <HR> <html><body>...
Rafael Robles
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Apr 11, 2001 2:39 pm
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In a message dated 4/11/2001 10:02:48 AM Central Daylight Time, ... Hello Raphael, The best answer I can give you, off the cuff, is that the last three books ...
HSigerson@...
Apr 11, 2001 3:18 pm
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... between "predetermination" and the concept of "no free will".The Predeterminism in Spinoza operates at a macro level and refers to the modifications of ...
charles saunders
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Apr 18, 2001 6:18 pm
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Please forgive the intrusion on this list. I have modified my web site and included the following note there and which I also wish to apply to any past ...
"...it is well that we should briefly enumerate the means necessary for attaining our end. I. To have an exact knowledge of our nature which we desire to ...
Dear SH: Exactly. But take care. Those who make a "spititualist" of Spinoza err just as surely as those who make of him a materialist. Frank P.S. I can be...
... The Improvement contains Spinoza's actual methods of work, but most academics seem to feel that the Ethics, with TPT, is the mature expression of his ...
Dear Sunhunter. You are a remarkable individual! Iris ... academics ... his ... Ethics, ... necessarily ... being; ... infinite ... which ... name ... which ...
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