... "Someone" would like for you to go, but you have a different desire that excludes the possibility... Referred to the mind of one person, this could aptly ...
... Yes, I don't have his book; and though Rice thinks that Bennett's treatment of reflexive ideas is a useful start, he thinks that reflexive ideas (pace...
I see it's already tommorow where you are at and I see that you are up late. I have just about worn out my copy of Bennett. I bought the book in late 1985, and...
Here is where we get into his "intellectual love of God." Wasn't it the Schopemhauer quote where he said it was impossible for the essence of another being to...
LIke my quote from Freud that as a group we will repeat certain things over and over. The persistence of ideas says something about their content. You have...
... The Republicans surely have taken this to heart! Which is why Al Franken's _Lies and the Lying Liars who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right_...
... Actually, I use the public library for my computer use (I don't own a computer!). Ergo, I'm never on past 9:00 PM EST. I wonder how you thought you knew...
... Can you give the page number? ... He observed a seeming, seems to me. And then supposedly argued like Spinoza that there is no real distinction between...
... This then should allow us to talk of _specific_ beliefs and desires, as I did with the example of the cone. Contemporary eliminative materialists suggest...
That quote was from On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason trans. by F.F.J. Payne (LaSalle,Il:Open Court, 1974 [1813, revised ed. 1847 ...
Hello! Yesterday i was (once again since 4 years) reading the beginning the Ethics. Maybe I ve read Kant too much too, but I dont understand why SPACE...
Hello Budd, Thank you but I know what an essence is, and I know what it is for Spinoza (please note that SPINOZA says that an essence is this, without which...
E2P49: "These three - namely, images, words, and ideas - are by many persons either are confused together, or not distinguished with sufficient accuracy or...
In reading and considering these posts it has become a curiosity to me that we have not included nor discussed in these posts, Spinoza's true given idea for...
Spinoza tell us that the mind acquires all sorts of ideas from imagination, reason and intuition. And from these modes of perception it acquires ideas which it...
Sacha, ... Space is not an attribute for Spinoza. Space is divisible, but no attribute, nor substance, can be divided (see IP12 and IP15S1). Therefore space...
Thank you lance: Spinoza says that extension is not divisible. I accept this (I should read the demonstrations again although). But why hasn´t time an...
Dear Sacha, ... That's a very interesting question. I will try to address it later. I am going out to a set of meetings for the rest of the day and probably ...
Thank you Lance! I personally will go through the ethics a little bit today, maybe I discover the answer by then! Bye, have a nice day! "Lancelot R. Fletcher"...
Hi Sacha, You wrote: <snip> ... and then ... Your last statement here seems to me the best way to understand Spinoza's ideas. --Lance offers excellent...
... It would be nice if you point out something Spinoza says that makes it seem as if Spinoza believes in individual essences distinct from individuals. ...
... There is a stubborn fact that, no matter what, one has to some degree (however great, small, or even infinitesimal) ordered their life. Spinoza thinks ...
Speaking strictly for myself, the reason I quote Spinoza is in part due to your "warning." In reading some of the posts I notice the passages quoted have ...
"Something" in ordinary language is thought of as physical/material. So when we "look out" and see "open space" we tend to think "nothing physical I can see, ...
"I think you might do something better with the time," she said, "than wasting it in sking riddles that have no answers." "If you knew Time as well as I do,"...
One of the first things God told Adam to do in the garden was to name things; he was a co-creator with God and didn't know it. This was naturally given to him...
... That's interesting. What would it have mattered to those in paradise given that the _will to name_ has nothing to do with understanding and creating? I ...
Ok, I think we are intrinsicly of the same essence as the creator. I don't know I would say as a creator "needs" to be, as Spinoza's god needs nothing. I...
John, I took longer than I'd like on this one. I think you're right, a poor choice of words on my part. Rather than "universal mind" I think "total knowledge" ...
Regarding Hallett, there is of course Aeternitas and his Benedict de Spinoza: The Elements of his Philosophy. There is also another one, a little harder to...
