My name is Russ and I am new to the group and new to reading much in the way of philosophy. Spinoza was suggested to me by someone in another group - he told...
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hello dear Dana this is the ad i have put on meetic adventures website. hi there. i really don't have a clue how to compose an plentiful intelligible message....
ok sorry for sending this by mistakes in Spinoza. Dana could you answer me, should you do it, you could choose rather to write me at the usual address. Adline ...
Hi folks. I just wanted to mention that there's a very good/lengthy review of 'Aeternitatis' by C.D. Broad. If I remember correctly it was published in two...
Walter, Thanks for your message. And again I apologize for my delay in posting it. ... This might be an interesting subject of discussion, but it would help if...
... help if you ... illustrate the ... I wanted to comply with this request, but I hadn't looked at any Hallett in about 30 years, so I rummaged around to see...
Hi Walter, Mark, Lance, and All, Walter wrote, of Hallet's examination of Spinoza's expressed ideas,: "...And he often comes at things from a unique angle....
Thanks, Terry. Interesting post. With Cook (whom I don't know) you characterize 'vertical understanding' as a work of "the intellect." Do you think, though, ...
In a letter to the Editor of "Mind" Hallett has written, "More time has elapsed than I had realised while I have been considering whether Professor Broad's...
Hi Walter and All, You wrote: ... The vertical vs horizontal analogy is for me just a convenient image, as is the mouse in the maze. I used it in a particular...
... [snip] "[I]s Dr. Broad so naive to believe that it is possible in metaphysics to elaborate a complex speculation, and then, having completed that part of...
"It is not the walls of your library, decked with ivory and glass, that I need, but rather the resting place in your heart, wherein I have not stored books,...
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Call for Papers for the 10. International Conference of the Spinoza-Society, held at the Philipps University of Marburg, Sept. 26-28th 2008 The Naturalness of...
Hi All, Walter's assessment of Hallett's reply to Broad's comments on his (Hallett's) "Aeternitas" [whew!], which reply included the following: ... ...and...
Hi, Terry. I don't think I'd try to respond to all the points made in your interesting post (even if I were capable of it), but I do want to thank you for...
Hi Walter, Thanks for your comments and for providing material to consider for discussion. Even though the "interaction" here in this Spinoza group takes place...
Thanks Walter, ... Likewise I hope that you and others will continue to post your thoughts, whatever they might be, and I'll join in whenever I feel I might...
Just parenthetically, as a newbie to this list (but someone who spent a good deal of time studying Spinoza way back in the 1970s), I'm kind of curious to know...
It's a clever retooling of traditional metaphysics, but frankly, I think all reasoning about essence and existence is nonsensical and obsolete. I don't think...
It is possible? yu will find the following worthwhile. But quite possibly not. ... From: Terry Neff <tneff@...> To: spinoza@yahoogroups.com Sent:...
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Sorry, last email was meant to be forwarded to a friend. ... From: Terry Neff <tneff@...> To: spinoza@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:16 am...
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Relative to the "argument" for "God's" necessary existence couched in terms of the distinction between essence and existence - It seems to me that one could...
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... in terms of the distinction between essence and existence - It seems to me that one could avoid all that "foreign" ancient and medieval language by simply...
