... Since the list is read by many whose knowledge level is unknown to me, I'm going to recap some basics along the way. What is a body? AFAIK there is no...
What follows is a passage on the mind-body problem from my favorite American philosopher, Everett Hall (1901-1960). I think it provides an interesting...
Thanks, Donovan. I don't agree with those commentators who say that Spinoza took Substance to "consist" of its attributes. I rather think his view was that...
This is from Section 32 of his book, "A Study of Spinoza's Ethics." ************************* 1. I say to you 'There's a spider on your sleeve', you then think...
I have an idea of what you mean when you ask me to "explain why this isn't circular" but before I say anything could you elaborate a little what your looking...
Just a quick question while I'm sitting here waiting. For you then or others for that matter, I ask, is the mind in the body? When you step out the front door...
Hi, Mark. Look out for those hail stones!! In response to my question of why there couldn't just be things and no ... and I wondered how it could be ok to rely...
... I don't have a ready analogy with which to illustrate the difference between substance and a particular body. But a modification of motion and rest in...
... ====== "I sing the Body electric; The armies of those I love engirth me, and I engirth them; They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them,...
Hey, Donovan, ... anything ... I'm a newbie and I have no idea what the forum was doing before I started reading it, but, speaking only for myself, I'm not at...
My post showed up in my mailbox, and upon reading it, I felt it might be taken as a bit derisive or contemptuous. I hope not, because that is not intended. I...
... What's faith got to do with it? What about a certain horror and futility with regard to the status quo and inquiry into an ethical life? ... Sure, so you...
Back in '85 Bennett was going around lecturing on Spinoza and, I assume, "promoing" (don't know if I spelled that right) his book. I was fortunate at the time...
... to ... ethical ... I have no problem with any inquiries. ... Nothing, but I'm guessing you can tell from my actions that it's true. ... Good point. ... be ...
Thanks for that story. I wonder why (other than being a pompous ass), someone wouldn't deign to answer your question about immortality. I mean, it WAS a major...
Hi Walter. With all due respect is there anything about which you think Spinoza is right? Anything in his work you "gravitate" too? I'm just curious at this ...
Hello again. I don't think I ever answered your post to me from 3/31 in re. "God is represented to us as an idea, the reality of which, not the existence, is...
Hi, Mark. I love the entire vision. I'm attracted to the holism, his compatibalism, the psychological insights, almost all of it. That doesn't have to mean I...
In your post of 3/31@6:34am you wrote, "That is he seems to be saying something about what our ideas are OF (your caps) matching the order fo things in the...
... 1. Why do you think that the (obvious) fact that while thoughts may be of matter, matter can't be of thoughts (i.e., that thoughts have the quality of...
Mark, It's interesting how the discussion gets around to bringing to light this or that little facet of Spinoza's philosophy. ... My translation (just below)...
Hi All, It seems to me that many people do as I did for many years and perhaps fail to notice that Spinoza sometimes refers to particular EXISTING things, and...
Right. I misquoted there. He was talking about forming the concept of a sphere (not circle) and he went on to say "This idea, of course, is true, and even...
So if it exists in the "infinite intellect" is the reason there are ideas at all. This is what I was trying to say in response to Walter by writing it's not so...
Spinoza was in error when he referred to "a circle existing in nature." Euclidean geometry still works great for figuring out practical problems, but aside...
