Good afternoon to everybody. I´m Carlos, a Philosophy teacher. My usual teaching position is in a Secondary School (High School). I work in Sevilla,...
cepse1.fil
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Feb 2, 2001 2:24 am
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Hi Carlos and All, Good to see another Spinoza egroup. I visited it and used the language "translation" facility at AltaVista to help with my rather limited...
tneff@...
Feb 2, 2001 6:41 pm
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Spinoza struggled against the notion of God all is life. You make a confusion between his radical destruction of any grounding for a supreme being and his...
Paul Laurendeau
paull@...
Feb 2, 2001 7:13 pm
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Paul, ... Huh? Terry...
tneff@...
Feb 3, 2001 12:06 am
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Rather than forcing Spinoza into service as a spokesman for atheism, pantheism, progressivism, materialism, etc. -- issues which he may not even have...
Chuck Salvo
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Feb 3, 2001 6:03 pm
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Dear Terry, I wonder if by any chance you speak French? While the English language Spinoza list has been dormant the French language list has been flourishing ...
Patrick Kenny
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Feb 5, 2001 1:36 pm
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Read: Paul Laurendeau'a materialist interpretation of the thought of Spinoza was not appreciated by certain readers, but has nothing to do with the slowdown of...
Paul Laurendeau
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Feb 5, 2001 1:50 pm
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Regarding the question if Spinoza was a deist or a crypto-atheist I would make two simple considerations. 1)Spinoza God is not the God in which believes...
Daniele Spina
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Feb 5, 2001 3:01 pm
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Hello Patrick, Thanks for the tip. Good to see that you are still a member here. I just now joined the list you mentioned (assuming that "spinoza- fr" in...
tneff@...
Feb 5, 2001 4:32 pm
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You reduce materialism to a narrow variety of Descartes-derived view of the determination of thought by the main feature of matter in the cartesian system:...
Paul Laurendeau
paull@...
Feb 5, 2001 6:58 pm
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I completely agree with Paul Larendeau: I don't think philosophy is harmless in itself. According to Kant it would rather be a battlefield. I do think ...
Sanchez Y Estop Juan-...
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Feb 6, 2001 7:55 am
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Cant agree more. Specially on your views about the distinction to be made between theology and philosophy. That distinction is crucial to Spinoza. It is...
Paul Laurendeau
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Feb 6, 2001 12:49 pm
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Dear Paul, Thank you for replaying to my e-mail. We do not agree about your interpretation of Spinoza, but I believe it is important to compare our ideas also...
Daniele Spina
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Feb 6, 2001 1:25 pm
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You make these quotes from the Ethics say what they dont say, and you comment on my gloss of Spinoza's quote about the non autonomy of the spectres similar to...
Paul Laurendeau
paull@...
Feb 6, 2001 2:20 pm
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Dear Paul, Towards the end of E5 Spinoza has his readers clearly understand wherein our salvation or blessedness or freedom consists: namely in the constant...
Patrick Kenny
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Feb 6, 2001 3:07 pm
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Mainly as cover up. The famous Spinoza mask. But Patrick -since you decided to finally argue on the substance, what is easier here than on other lists (did you...
Paul Laurendeau
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Feb 6, 2001 3:22 pm
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Dear Paul, These lines can hardly be a 'cover up' since Spinoza not allow the Ethics to be published until after his death; so I re-iterate my request that you...
Patrick Kenny
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Feb 6, 2001 3:33 pm
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Despite its post morten issuing, it is clear that from line one to the end the Ethics was not a draft, but a completed work crafted "as if", i.e. ready for...
Paul Laurendeau
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Feb 6, 2001 3:45 pm
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Dear Paul, I believe that Spinoza knew that his idea of God was going to raise the hackles of theologians not only in his lifetime but for centuries to come. I...
Patrick Kenny
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Feb 6, 2001 4:09 pm
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Why would I. I comment your text, not your hidden thoughts. Dont you do the same thing with Spinoza. The scolastic baits are everywhere in his texts, and you...
Paul Laurendeau
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Feb 6, 2001 4:18 pm
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You write: "Give me a solid quote where Spinoza claims a radical separation between mind and body, and/or an independence of the mind from the body." Of...
Daniele Spina
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Feb 6, 2001 4:23 pm
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I buy that. Since you are asking my personnal opinion, I sand for the views that thought is a feature of a certain complex level of configuration of matter:...
Paul Laurendeau
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Feb 6, 2001 8:14 pm
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In a message dated 2/5/01 11:00:04 AM, paull@... writes: "Your third reason (that as body exists without soul, so soul exists without body) seems to me...
SunHunter9@...
Feb 6, 2001 8:28 pm
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... And you exemplifie your own statement with your comment, which is to me the typical sampel of scholasticist philibuster. The art of hair-splitting as an...
Paul Laurendeau
paull@...
Feb 6, 2001 8:52 pm
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Mr. Laurendeau, Making ad hominem remarks about a person's interpretation of Spinoza is unworthy of a serious scholar. Tony C. Hicks...
HSigerson@...
Feb 6, 2001 9:50 pm
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There was no ad hominem remark in my posting. You will have to provide your quotes, Mister. Nevertheless, I am perfectly capable of making ad hominem remarks...
Paul Laurendeau
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Feb 6, 2001 10:08 pm
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In a message dated 2/6/01 2:55:12 PM Central Standard Time, paull@... writes: ... And you exemplifie your own statement with your comment, which is to me ...
HSigerson@...
Feb 6, 2001 11:15 pm
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Thank you for that ad hominem manifestation of your lack of interest for my response. It is at least more sincere and less pedant than your previous...
Paul Laurendeau
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Feb 6, 2001 11:26 pm
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... The theologian and the philosopher are at odds because their object of study is the same, viz. the Whole (and as consequence how man should live); the...
Chuck Salvo
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Feb 6, 2001 11:45 pm
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... This I fail to understand, because this description does not match the materialism I myself hold, one which is definetly informed by both Marx and Spinoza,...
