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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
... 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 ...
Once again, quality -> quantity in human 'affects'. Horror -> Exponential Horror Kindness -> Exponential.... Someone should do a proper proof of that part of...
... 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 ...
