An honorary doctorate degree will be conferred on Professor Jonathan I. Israel by the Erasmus University Rotterdam on Wednesday, 8 November 2006. Professor...
The crucial fundamental flaw in Spinoza's philosophy is, in my view, his still having mistakenly attributed mind or thought to God, in other words, to the...
John, I am a bit puzzled by what you say here, and I wonder if you would be willing to clarify it. Do you think there is an error in the proof of VP22? If so,...
Hello Lance, I simply mean to say that I consider the presupposition that mind or thought is an attribute of the Whole, and not merely a function of sentient...
As I see it, we human beings are an unique part of the Whole that happens to have become able to think, and what we have in common with the Whole is not mind...
Hello Blake, Thank you very much for your observations. When you say that 'human thought can be thought of as a subset of the attribute of thought' it sounds...
Dear John, I have a paper describing Spinoza's Attributes which I will send you under separate cover. In EVP21 Spinoza makes it clear that the human mind as...
Thanks, Blake. I shall read your message attentively. In the meantime, please note that 'my' Buddhism is Advayavada Buddhism. Advayavada = not-two-ism. Among...
Hi John, Blake and others.... To the extent we are identified in Spirit with the Eternal, there can be no question that the mind reflecting these modes is also...
Hello Donovan, Blake and others, Please allow me to revert later in the week with clarifications and questions. Am off to Rotterdam today for the honorary...
Re: Spate of letters on 'sub species aeternatatis': Let us suppose that the implication of Blake's observations is that "viewing" the body SSA can only be...
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Nov 8, 2006 3:23 pm
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... There is something intensely interesting to me in what you say. It would not be difficult to construct a sequence of citations which illustrates the...
My notes for the weekend :-) According to Spinoza, God i.o.w. Nature is a dynamic whole which he calls substance. Nature has things, collectively called...
Hi folks, I think an unnecessary and probably accidental constriction of 'sentient' to only apply to man, or the level of man whatever the level is about. It...
John wrote: All mirroring pairs of modes of extension and thought exist together and die together. How so, then, that Nature reclaims something of the thought...
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Nov 9, 2006 3:45 pm
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Stuart proposes on 9/11 among other things: "To the extent one can actively think sub specie aeternitatis, to that extent that [particular] consciousness is...
Hi John and All, A few things came to my mind as I read your notes. Below are a few comments which you might consider. ... Does this "dynamic whole" to which...
... Tneff responded: Does this "dynamic whole" to which you refer involve change? If not then what do you mean by "dynamic"? If it does involve change then...
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Hi Stuart, John, and All, [Note: I have not received a few of the recent messages in email from this list although I have received most of them. I found...
... intrinsically >happening? I tend to think of "happening" as the content of consciousness as perceived by an "experiencer" who believes he is experiencing...
In my opinion, the most important thing to remember at all times is that there is only one reality, and that the fact that it (the one whole) is dynamic and...
Hi John, I have made note of your opinions and of course you have a right to hold them. You are not the first, and, no doubt, you will not be the last to fail ...
This is what Steven Nadler writes in Spinoza's Ethics, An Introduction, Cambridge University Press 2006: << So what, then, can Spinoza be talking about in the...
The full text of Professor Israel's recent lecture in English at the Radboud University Nijmegen on Freedom of Thought versus Freedom of Religion is on ...
Steven Nadler writes in his Spinoza's Ethics, An Introduction, the following: << Any body is nothing but a specific ratio of motion and rest among a collection...
... From: stuarts55@... To: StuartS55@... Sent: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 11:18 PM Subject: Fwd: [spinoza] Re: tneff's response to JOhn ... From:...
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Hi John, Well, perhaps your mind is not so totally fixed as your previous list of ... I notice that you very often quote or refer to the writings or speeches ...
