Hi, During my little study of the concept of liberty/freedom/liberation in Spinoza I found an interesting variation in the English translation of the following...
Hi Hans and All, Concerning the choice of words made by translators going from Spinoza's Latin term "respublica" into English and other languages you asked: ...
Hi, Hans. I'm inclined to agree with Terry that alternating between "state" and "government" in the passage you quoted doesn't seem to produce much difference...
Hello Hans, It seems likely that "Republica" evolved as a contraction from "res publicae" (by which I believe Romans meant something like "the affairs of our...
Hi Mark! ... "Name by accident" is an appealing turn of phrase which is new to me. Where do you come by it, and how does it relate to "metaphyics?" ... If one...
Hi Donovan and All, Although I agree somewhat with simply translating "republica" to the English word "republic" that still leaves us with the question of what...
As an addendum to the e and e thread, and further comment on physicalism (to the extent its foundation is in experience), consider the saying of Krishnamurti: ...
Hearkening back to something Mark said with regard to essence [of mind] as immanent cause [of true knowledge], which is in harmony with Ethics (cf. E5P31), it...
Hi Donovan and All, Do you believe that just because some people may identify their own mode of thinking as "reason" they are necessarily engaged in what...
W: "So, for example, we might let a super duck be any duck which can eat an entire skyscraper, and note that nothing else in the world can eat through a...
... One generality deserves another in this instance. I have ideas about people, but they are provisional to the extent that I understand that my idea of them...
Hi Donovan and All, I would guess that we might be applying terms differently. You wrote: ... I would point out that just prior to the above paragraph in that...
Aristotle produced a number of works covering most of the known sciences of his day. So these dealt with material things, physics, or nature, the causes of...
The key thing with REASON is, I think, that for anything to be worthy of the name is that it be "truth preserving." (I take it we all know what I mean by...
This concept actually goes back to the ancient Greeks and is more like the idea of the commonwealth. The underlying idea that the state is not somple the...
... of his ... I like the passage you quoted. To wit: "....self-evident intellectual axioms. Now unless the experience be of such a kind as to be clearly and ...
Walter, ... Yes, but he also made specific reference in the Ethics to the "bases of reason" which he explained and supported in some detail. Okay, think of it ...
I thought the key aspect of reason is that it is independant of our will, wish or whim. And that true knowledge is accessable by all. Not needing any ...
... Okay, so what? Neither Spinoza nor I see much difficulty reasoning in the abstract about what you are bringing out here, which means either that my usage...
Hi Mark and All, ... So if Spinoza wrote specifically about Reason, defining and explaining what he meant by it and what he considered to be the adequate ideas...
Donovan, I am unable to make much sense out of your reply to my response to your original post: ... ...so I'm just going to assume that I did not understand...
So did Spinoza claim that reason was dependant on his thinking alone? That adequate ideas were his only? That knowledge and truth isn't available to one and...
Hi Mark, By your reply I guess I don't understand what point(s) you were trying to make so I'll leave it to others to provide their own thoughts if they are ...
Hi Hans and All, I read your current post and I will say that for me anyway it seems to reflect a very positive attitude with regard to many diverse people...
... As well you ought to wonder, Terry, since with fair regularity, you react with passive-aggressive and condescending expressions when your ideas are...
... "bases of ... of it ... Were you referring to this?-- "We may add that the bases of reason are the notions (II. xxxviii.), which answer to things common to...
Hi Donovan, You wrote: ... Okay, you had written previously: ... So, when Spinoza wrote at the beginning of that note about some people who assert that God...
Hi Walter, ... Yes. What do you think about these "things common to all" which Spinoza writes about in E2P37 through E2P40 (along with of course E2P13L2 to...
