Hi Constantine (or Craig?), Thanks for your message which you did get across below, I ... I never start out with pscho-analysis, it is rather an impression or...
Dear Danielle - Wasn't it the uber-shrink Freud himself who said Nietzsche "knew himself better than any human being in history or is ever likely to?" (I quote...
Craig, Thanks so much for the Film reference - I can't wait to get it out of the video library, better ring around. At least he had some salient days - that...
Perhaps it is difficult for those who have been brought up in empiricist ways of thought to bring together the three following propositions and to accept their...
... "Perhaps it is difficult for those who have been brought up in empiricist ways of thought to bring together the three following propositions and to accept...
... "Perhaps it is difficult for those who have been brought up in empiricist ways of thought to bring together the three following propositions and to accept...
Hi Folks, I don't understand the point ( 3 ) from John Willemsens ... What is meant by 'mathematical knowledge', it may seem straight forward to you guys.... I...
Spinoza did write a little treatise on the rainbow which was somewhat mathemtical and being a lens grinder he was using maths in that context. I think he is...
Sarah Redshaw
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Let me remind the group, gently, that The Ethics was modeled, perhaps obsessively, on geometry. Working through his proofs of god and ethics in his...
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Hello What is the project that you are doing? Is this connecting Spinoza Thinking with ARTs like in particular Cinema, Theater, Dance, or other activities ...
Hello Stuart, My Dutch version of the Ethica contains a note stating that on page 347 of Letter 60 Spinoza writes that he sees no difference between a true...
... From: John Willemsens <johnwillemsens@...> To: secularforum@yahoogroups.com Cc: Spinoza List <spinoza@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Mon, 8 Aug 2005...
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Dear Stuart and all, I posted the Hampshire quote simply because I believed it to be relevant food for thought. If I understand you correctly, Stuart, your...
... From: John Willemsens <johnwillemsens@...> To: Spinoza List <spinoza@yahoogroups.com>; Secular Forum <secularforum@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tue, 9 Aug...
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Aug 9, 2005 2:23 pm
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E2d4 "By an adequate idea, I mean an idea which, in so far as it is considered in itself, without relation to the object, has all the properties or intrinsic...
I am most interested in Spinoza's social and political ideas. These I am connecting to social practices such as driving and ethics. The project I am involved...
Sarah Redshaw
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Aug 17, 2005 2:17 am
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Hi Adline, If you could give possibly a few more parameters or even questions regarding your project on art with respect to Spinoza and also just freely...
"IIP37: What is common to all things (on this see L2 above) and is equally in the part and in the whole, does not constitute the essence of any singular thing....
Sarah Redshaw: RE Spinoza's social and political ideas - these are in Spinoza's "Political Theological Treatise". However, as you may have read, these ideas...
Hi Shapoor, There is a site you can download the .html files on Spinoza provided by one of the members on this group, Joseph Yesselman, just navigate his site...
... I can only see that GODs essence, as per Eth I, being existence, it is common to all things parts and wholes and whole parts which are parts of another...
Danielle, I think your reasoning is fine. And, like many of Spinoza's propositions, this proposition can be demonstrated through a variety of principles. For...
Hi Daniel, Yes you got it with the attribute or at least calling it an attribute as oddly I have never thought of the essence that we share with the infinite /...
Hi Daniel ... Well, I have a try myself: We have to bear in mind that each singular thing is the object of a distinct definition. There isn't anything in...
Hi Daniel and All, ... and I think Hans has pointed out a key to understanding it in Spinoza's own definition of "the essence of a thing" (E2D2). In this...
Friends! Send me some articles, recents about the studies of first definitions of first session of ethics, specially; substance, God, modes, and essence and...
