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...
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Mark Cunningham
mdcanc
May 30, 2003 11:40 pm
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 ...
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Tony Rose
tony_rose1
Jun 2, 2003 1:52 pm
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 ...
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Mark Cunningham
mdcanc
Jun 3, 2003 5:01 am
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 ...
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OneOfThe WretchedMasses
horace_bites...
Jul 1, 2003 3:08 pm
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...
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Bulz Nicolae
nnbulz
Jul 1, 2003 3:10 pm
Dear and Esteemed Mr. Tony Rose, Please, is this an electronic book? In general terms, how is it available? Thanks, Nicolae Bulz ...
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horace_bites_back
horace_bites...
Jul 1, 2003 3:11 pm
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...
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Mark Cunningham
mdcanc
Jul 3, 2003 11:16 pm
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...
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Mark Cunningham
mdcanc
Jul 4, 2003 4:21 am
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,...
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hans müller
hans19682000
Jul 4, 2003 5:09 am
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...
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tony.rose1@...
tony_rose1
Jul 4, 2003 5:18 am
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...
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OneOfThe WretchedMasses
horace_bites...
Jul 4, 2003 9:00 am
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...
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horace_bites_back
horace_bites...
Jul 4, 2003 2:59 pm
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...
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Apollonius77@...
spinozist77
Jul 5, 2003 1:53 am
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...
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tcrasberry@...
thelonerat2002
Jul 5, 2003 9:25 am
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...
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tcrasberry@...
thelonerat2002
Jul 5, 2003 9:26 am
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...
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Lancelot Fletcher
lrfletcher
Jul 5, 2003 9:28 am
... 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...
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OneOfThe WretchedMasses
horace_bites...
Jul 5, 2003 12:45 pm
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...
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hans müller
hans19682000
Jul 5, 2003 6:44 pm
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...
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OneOfThe WretchedMasses
horace_bites...
Jul 6, 2003 12:09 am
Hans, I will keep it simple - I hold the antithetical position, out of adversity, arises great spirit, humanity. You say: ["1. There can be no liberation of...
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hans müller
hans19682000
Jul 6, 2003 3:17 pm
Hi, This list is perhaps not the right place to discuss Marx and Engels,... let's leave it at that: We don't agree on them. Let's turn to Spinoza and try to...
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horace_bites_back
horace_bites...
Jul 7, 2003 1:00 am
I have come to a fairly simple conclusion which I think is important to raise with those who study or find Spinoza appealing today. The road which Marxism took...
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OneOfThe WretchedMasses
horace_bites...
Jul 7, 2003 1:06 am
Hans, I have answered you for the moment in posting "The challenge to be humane".... I will take my leave for the moment, and leave it to others who similarly...
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OneOfThe WretchedMasses
horace_bites...
Jul 7, 2003 2:59 am
Hans, and Marxism surely do have an honorable end. Peace on earth, an end to suffering. And I have said enough in sewing this strand of thought. I assume the...
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Mark Cunningham
mdcanc
Jul 7, 2003 10:26 pm
Have been reading the posts you have sent in. I think both of you are making a point. What is needed, and maybe philosophy can supply this, is an anthropology ...
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Mark Cunningham
mdcanc
Jul 7, 2003 10:39 pm
I might suggest Man's Glassy Essence-Explorations in Semiotic Anthropology by Milton Singer, relating to the social sciences-A History and Philosophy of the ...
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hans müller
hans19682000
Jul 8, 2003 10:31 am
Mark, Thank you for the recommendations. I will have a look on it. In fact, Spinoza is an inspiration, a starting point and destination - but of course we have...
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budd hoff
buddabout
Jul 8, 2003 7:28 pm
... Marx was all about turning Hegel right-side up, so that a real connection to the world is guaranteed. He thought Hegel had a line that today is called ...
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OneOfThe WretchedMasses
horace_bites...
Jul 8, 2003 10:40 pm
Once again, quality -> quantity in human 'affects'. Horror -> Exponential Horror Kindness -> Exponential.... Someone should do a proper proof of that part of...
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SunHunter9@...
sunhunter2001
Jul 8, 2003 10:59 pm
... I haven't posted much in some time, so perhaps I can hope to be forgiven for being rather long-winded about what follows. Some of the recent posts convey ...
