Hello, Thomas I read something about your interest in the possible relation between Spinoza and Heidegger. I'm very interested in this point too. I saw in the...
yes, mind and body are one, but Curley has shown (in Behind the Geometrical Method and i have just began reading this) that the mind has the idea of the body...
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Hi guys, This is from the 'Unabridged Elwes Translation" Improv. of. undersndg, the ethics, correspondence. Please see the letter from Spinoza to Christian...
Hi FDO, I very much agree with the last paragraph as to there being no alternate worlds, but wonder how you got to this from everything that preceeded it. How...
fdo, Hi ya. I really hate getting caught like a fly in the shifting and unintentional different 'understanding' of words - like free will, absolute free will,...
Sorry Stu, I thought the post on understanding was from fdo, please forgive, it is for you below... cheers danielle fdo, Hi ya. I really hate getting caught...
Wrote this piece last night. What fdo writes below is quite concise and clear which made this easier for me. I wanted to go beyond people back to God to...
Hi, no Stuart the first line I held to be not from Spinozas pen or thinking, far from it.. The remainder is and what a day and age for confusion as now...
"It is in the nature of reason to perceive [percipere] things sub quadam specie aeternitatis." (2P44C2) Thomas McDonald <mcdonald928@...> wrote: It...
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Dec 4, 2004 4:47 pm
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Contributions from me so far have been related to determinism and possibly parallelisms, the former certainly, the other I forget but maybe passing and ...
... But I was rejecting it..... no circuit board, the Universe is like your body, alive, as recently discovered in regards to this planet earth. Yep it needs...
To learn about choice it may be helpful to observe it in ourselves. I find it to be the conscious experience of degrees of confusion which involves a...
The point at which we, and Spinoza begin to think, as well as the point we begin to think about Spinoza, is everything. My point was that when it comes to...
So God exists then only as modifications? And I have to ask this also--why is it in quoting TDIE in. re. to "deduce all our ideas from from physical things,"...
I have asked a few times concerning Spinoza's conception of the self. He does not write, that I can find at least, about any conception of the self apart from...
... So then, concerning choice. If there is no self, there is no choice, right? Mark<< Spinoza gives us his ideas about the soul in the Short Treatise....
Hi Mark, I'm sorry that I can't respond point by point to your post just now. Suffice to say that once again it is the mode of perception that is the key to...
Hi, I think you have to distinguish clearly having ideas and being the idea of. From the moment on there is a body, there is a mind. The mind is the idea of...
thank you. i am not quite sure though that the mind's ideas "represent" the objects of the world, that would lead to a correspondence and i believe it is...
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Dec 6, 2004 2:17 pm
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Hi Danielle, I never said I was a determinist, I just said I thought Spinoza was. I take for granted that I have "free will". Philosophically speaking, though,...
There is a fameous book from Michael Della Rocca: Representation and the Mind/Body-problem in Spinoza. MDR explaines in the book clearly how in the human' s...
merci. i really appreciate the reference. on problems with representationalism i defer to Bergson personally, but i hear what you are saying. but you did write...
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Dec 6, 2004 5:50 pm
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Ideas in the human mind with an external cause are untrue and confused because they are composed. Ideas in God's mind are true because they are not external...
i see what you mean and i like this idea of "relativity" in the mind very much. thank you. Filip Buyse <filip_buyse@...> wrote: Ideas in the human mind...
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Dec 6, 2004 8:05 pm
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... seems ... of ... It sure makes sense, per your first question, but without having to strictly say there is a causal effect. Spinoza emphasizes the mind as...
1) Spinoza holds that ideas are active, "But concept seems to express an action of the mind." E 2, d.3., exp. 2) From E 2, p.49., Spinoza tells us there are no...
Tom, In the Ethics, part II, prop. 2 we read: The body cannot determine the mind to thinking, nor can the mind determine the body to motion or to rest, or to...
on the parallelism though, can we know (as a clear and distinct idea, that is knowing the cause(s) of the effects insofar as to then truely understand the...
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Dec 7, 2004 2:01 pm
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In a message dated 12/4/2004 8:49:36 AM Pacific Standard Time, ... Well, an abstract example was my paraphrase of Krishnamurti's remarks, which I here repeat. ...
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In a message dated 11/27/2004 4:26:11 AM Pacific Standard Time, ... is capable of altering the course of bodily actions via reflective > ... Here is an article...
