i'm trying to understand what Spinoza meant by "affect" ["affectus"]. I would love any help or ideas that are out there. thanks. [i've never participated...
I think that the principle of individuation in Leibniz and Spinoza are very differents. in Leibniz this principle are a complet concept of monads and in ...
I think that the principle of individuation in Leibniz and Spinoza are very differents. in Leibniz this principle are a complet concept of monads and in ...
... My thumb is in a sort of cast, which both affords me time to reply and makes it difficult to do so. I'll address one point, and go into a couple of ...
SunHunter suggests, most helpfully, that in the Ethics passion and emotion are quite different; and that emotion is active, in the present, and caused by ...
In a message dated 4/13/03 11:28:44 PM, ... seems to use "passion" ... distinction, it may be ... 128]. My thumb is in a sort of cast, which both affords me ...
hallo, members list I need a help in my inquire about essence and existence of finite modes... My inquire begin in E.II P.8, where Spinoza says about the...
According to my mail software, I originally sent the following message last Friday morning, but since it hasn't reached my inbox as a post, I'm sending it...
Just some suggestions as to Spinoza and his affects-sometimes in reading Spinoza I think he pays particular attention to the affects- for example Spinoza...
Hi All, In recent posts there has been some discussion regarding the words or phrases; emotion, passion, active power, active emotion, passive emotion, ...
I've only been in this group for a little over a month and I'm trying to get some idea about the discussion group. I've noticed in the posts those who are...
While looking for terms and definitions you will find Spinoza's Cogitata Metaphysica quite useful in some of the basic terms and the meanings they had for ...
Dear All Not connected to the email below but the group may be interested in the following book that was discussed on the BBC's radio 4 program 'Start the ...
Damasio has also written two other books, Descartes Error and The Feeling of What Happens-haven't had the chance to read them yet, but as I understand it, the ...
Hi folks, http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/aug2001/spin-a07.shtml This is a link to a book review of "Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of...
I don't believe that anything he writes refutes his conception that God exists or his notion of it... matter is infinite, energy infinite, certain laws...
I received an e-mail regarding an earlier psot of mine where I was posing questions. It entails much mateial so I thought I'd throw it out to the group. It...
I thoroughly enjoyed your last e-mail this evening. Am also glad you got the gist of my meaning about the worm in the blood. As for misreading me,not to worry,...
hi, It's one thing to have an argument with this special Trotskyst group you are referring to. But another to include all different kinds of marxists/marxisms...
Dear Nicolae In reply to your query under topic 2 below, I am not aware of an electronic version of Antonio Damasio's book Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow and...
Hi Hans, + Group, I empathise very much with the last paragraph, the spirit of the study - particularly as no man is an island, and there is something about...
I don't actually know that psychiatry has even without reference of or knowledge about Spinoza, resorted to obvious logic, that if a persons rage is not self...
In a message dated 7/4/2003 9:00:23 AM Mountain Standard Time, ... I know of at least one famous psychologist who has made Spinoza a centerpiece of his way of...
Our affects are divided into actions and passions. When the cause of an event lies in our own nature - more particularly, our knowledge or adequate ideas-then...
When the cause of an event lies in our own nature-more particularly, our knowledge or adequate ideas--then it is a case of the mind acting. Can someone explain...
... particularly, our ... Tom, Welcome to the Spinoza group. It would help us to respond precisely to your question if you would identify exactly the passage...
Thankyou, I'll look him up. Another one of my favourite psychologists who has much abstained from the profession is the prolific writer Alice Miller. I'm...
Hi Horace (?) + group Bartleby would perhaps put it like that: "I would prefer not to have a 'standpoint'." For me "identity" is not the question. It's not the...
