Maria Bussman is a an artist with a Ph.D. in philosophy. She has created artwork on the basis of her reflections upon the works of a number of philosophers,...
Dear John, Sorry you are closing some of your shops. But I guess if there is no traffic you can't pay the bills, so to speak. I just wanted to comment on the...
stuarts55@...
Apr 8, 2007 5:21 pm
1980
... Hello Stuart and friends, I would like to learn the particular texts of Spinoza's which Scruton has commented upon here. Would someone be kind enough to...
Greetings Donovan, The paragraph apparently comes from a book entitled "Spinoza." John Willemsen had just added four or five paragraphs, the one I responded to...
stuarts55@...
Apr 9, 2007 2:49 pm
1982
Hi Stuart, Donovan, and All, Glad to see some activity on this list and I hope that things are well with each of you. ... <snip> ... Scruton includes the...
... From: stuarts55@... To: StuartS55@... Sent: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 8:36 AM Subject: Re: [spinoza] Fwd: Steinman on Scruton on Spinoza Hello Terry: Don't...
stuarts55@...
Apr 10, 2007 3:43 pm
1984
... Good! My response came from my failure to understand what exactly Scruton was responding to in terms of Spinoza's actual expressions. Terry's post helped,...
Hi Stuart, Donovan, and All, ... Likewise, it is nice to communicate again with You, Donovan, and the rest of the group (the silent majority? :-) When I saw...
Hi Donovan, Stuart, and All, Gee, this is great. I no sooner send off my delayed reply to Stuart and in comes one from Donovan. Our cups runneth over. Ah, I...
Hi All (especially the "silent majority" of the group :-), It seems that we each have different styles of expressing ourselves in our postings here and of...
I'm going to begin today a study of Spinoza's "Improvement of the Understanding." How far it will proceed, and at what pace, I don't know. I know there is a...
Without going back and trying to justify, confirm, or explain the following rough opinion at the moment, my recollection is that I thought Spinoza painted...
stuarts55@...
May 17, 2007 5:59 am
1990
Stuart, I am glad to know you are on board, and thanks for your response. ... Let's go into it. We can go paragraph by paragraph, (Philosophical ...
... From: stuarts55@... To: StuartS55@... Sent: Fri, 18 May 2007 7:10 AM Subject: Re: [spinoza] Improvement Study Dear Donovan and anyone else who...
stuarts55@...
May 18, 2007 3:16 pm
1992
Hi Donovan, Stuart, and All, With regard to the treatise on the "Improvement of the Understanding" you wrote" ... I look forward to this discussion although...
Dear Donovan Thanks for starting this up for us. I would like to join in the discussion as well. I am not a deep student of Spinoza nor of philosophy. I am a...
... In turn, thanks for your post, for as I sit here pondering your comments on the opening lines, the emotion which goes with the ideas therein works once...
... Right! "All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare." It's great that you are undertaking a study of "The Improvement." Terry echoed the...
I'm going to use "p" for paragraph, "s" for sentence. Just BTW, what particular sort of sensual pleasure is S. citing in p4s1 below the first set of *****? ...
I'm a bit late to this discussion, but wanted to recommend a book by Michael P. Levine, which has rewarded this "slow reader" in a way that he hasn't been...
Terry, I guess TIE is as "complete" as it's going to be. It is possible, strictly speaking, that we are acquainted with Spinoza's own admonition about...
Hi Donovan and All, ... As I mentioned, I look forward to this discussion although I'm not sure that I can offer much concerning any possible; "rough, obscure,...
[7] (1) Further reflection convinced me that if I could really get to the root of the matter I should be leaving certain evils for a certain good. (2) I thus...
D: Sounds to me like getting fairly stinking drunk, and suffering a nasty hangover. I begin to wonder then whether Spinoza may have imbibed a fair amount...
stuarts55@...
May 19, 2007 3:26 pm
2002
Constantine, your note came through to me like this. Is it correctable from your end? ... From: craigconstantine@... To: spinoza@yahoogroups.com;...
stuarts55@...
May 19, 2007 4:21 pm
2003
[4] (1) By sensual pleasure the mind is enthralled to the extent of quiescence, as if the supreme good were actually attained, so that it is quite incapable...
[7] (1) Further reflection convinced me that if I could really get to the root of the matter I should be leaving certain evils for a certain good. (2) I thus...
D:What did S. know of riches and fame? S: If Spinoza is not a clever fraud, then he appears to be a "spiritual" prodigy of some sort. And he is pretty...
stuarts55@...
May 20, 2007 12:47 pm
2006
... Flag your post for later review. As we get deeper into "The Improvement" you could parse your text/ideas and determine what kinds they are according to...
