I've gotten extremely busy, but I haven't forgotten about the profound questions in this post: ... What about the attributes? What about the mediate modes?...
The book you refer to is: Spinoza's Short Treatise on God, Man, and His Well-Being, translated and edited, with an introduction and commentary and a life of...
Reading Edward Harrison's "Masks of the Universe" has led me back recently to Spinoza. I read these words years ago-- "When a thing is not loved, no quarrels...
As for Natura naturans/Natura naturata, we may think of them as nature creating and nature created respectively. In nature created, we find motion in matter...
I tried to go back to the Hebrew to see how "son" of God might have been used. From what I'm able to put together, Spinoza says that the true good is able to ...
... Doesn't Spinoza say very directly somewhere in the Short Treatise that God has produced the human understanding immediately? I think this is a key idea, ...
I've been thinking about your post since it first appeared-it points to something we refer to here but don't talk so directly about. Terry has on his website,...
... Emanation and Salvation, Lance said that reading it changed his whole life. ... Thanks for the reference, Mark. Until now, the words "emanation" and...
... A nice exchange; thoroughly enjoyable and I think very to the point. I recently reread a paper by Diane Steinberg which reminded me of the great gulf that...
i am supposed to write a paper for school discussing the faults in spinozas ethics(particularly the first 2 sections). I have come up with some of the more...
Had to think a bit before responding to your "post." That you begin wanting to discuss the "faults" in Spinoza's Ethics, leads me to assume, rightly or ...
This evening I received a private e-mail in. re. to the post for Kevbieri. And no, it wasn't from Kevbieri, unfortunately, as I would like, sincerely, to hear...
Dear friends, On November 22, Prof. Steven Nadler, of the University of Wisconsin, will give a talk in Utrecht on the above subject which I hope to attend....
That sounds like a very good and worthwhile "talk" coming up with Dr. Nadler. Maybe when you get back from the talk you could let us know something about what...
Hi All, In a private correspondence the question came up as to what we might make of the idea of "consciousness" in Spinoza's works. It occurred to me after...
Unfortunately, a virus has been passed on to me by a contact. My address book WAS infected. Since you are in my address book, there is a good chance you will...
The following message is a hoax. The file mentioned, jdbgmgr.exe, is a part of the Windows operating system. If you search for it, it is overwhelmingly likely...
Dear friends, Just to inform you that the subject of consciousness appears repeatedly (but by no means exhaustively!) in our website. On the site map mentioned...
In Spinoza's writings we find in his Prin. of Descartes I/149 in Curley-p. 238, terms commonly associated with/as [content of] consciousness--thought, idea,...
... I once climbed Mt. Whitney with a friend in early June after some late snowfall had buried all the switchbacks, so the ascent was arduous. We were headed ...
On Saturday last I attended a lecture by prof. Steven Nadler at the University of Utrecht on the above and I have now added the following to the QandA section...
Hi Mark, <snip> ... <snip> A few thoughts came to mind while reading the post in which several quotes from Spinoza's "Principles of Descartes' Philosophy" were...
Is Spinoza's greatest challenge not that there not be the slightest difference in our understanding and appreciation of his philosophy when we should...
I agree with you in pointing out to those new to Spinoza, that his "Principles" was for use, as you say, as a study aid for a pupil. And the preface by Meyer...
And you ask in reference to those new to Spinoza, how they will know "what to accept and what to reject from this rearrangement of Descartes work." You are...
Hi Mark, One thing was a little unclear to me in the reference to Spinoza's correspondence with Oldenburg. It's not clear to me if you intended to ... which...
Hi John, ... that ... I believe that Spinoza uses the two terms God and Nature as identical in order to help the reader overcome the tendency to imagine, as...
Hi folks, I will spell this one out, there are quite a few propositions before it.. But I was wondering whether it all about mans ability to be aware of his...
... The other evening a woman was heard to remark that she "has thoughts which come out of nowhere." Consequences without premises. One realizes, however the...
