Terry and Mark, many thanks for your remarks. For me it remains a litmus test for my own understanding of Spinoza's philosophy whether I can indistinctly use...
Mark, I received your email with TDIE p. 31 in Curley, barely after I had finished writing this one. I think that you kind of read my mind... do you agree? I...
Fernando writes: "The question then arises: are there causes that are not itself effects? Because if there are, then those could be known without knowing their...
Hi folks, I have been trying to understand this piece as well from "On the Improvement of the Understanding" and it seems to be related perhaps kind of...
Sometimes in our posts a topic will come up and we as a "group," sort of "pirate" it away in a direction maybe different from that originally intended. ...
I sent a reply to Fernando last night-it made it to the group site [yahoo groups] but did not appear in my e-mail, so I don't know if it "got through" as it ...
... Sometimes in our posts a topic will come up and we as a "group," sort of "pirate" it away in a direction maybe different from that originally intended. ...
I checked the post, yours Danielle, this am. when I got in from work. I did not see that my post to Fernando came through to individual e-mails, at least it...
Hi guys, This is on the fly, so I apologize... I am trying my best to work on something so I don't offend not that popularity really concerns me and it didn't...
The question I put which I believe is about the 4th kind of knowledge: "On the Improvement of the Understanding". p15, Dover Press, Elwes Translation, BDS ...
Hi, Danielle, Mark & all, There are so many interesting points raised in both your emails and so little time... - I hope I will eventually catch up with you -...
When you write about an "intuition about intuition" I understand this to be Spinoza's idea of an idea, that which is equally in the part and in the whole, the ...
It seems I mistook in your post psicological for psychological, that you meant physiological. My apologies for that. I wondered then if I misunderstood which...
Danielle, As I said in my last email, I think Spinoza does not think that there can be a thing that is not connected to others. And he presents this...
SKIP THIS PART BUT ITS THE ONLY EXAMPLE I CAN THINK OF FOR THE 4th KIND Going back to the baby example... The baby is born with desires / appetite / and is...
Mark, No need to apologize, I did mean Psychological!. In my defense I can only say that english is not my mother tongue, that is why I typed it incorrectly....
Likewise, there was much more in your post than "consequence without premise." I agree too, that everyone and everything is conected. You bring up several...
Hi F, I'll respond in greater detail later, but I think what you deny is actually possible, the whole basis for that unity of body and mind is laid out in the...
Hi F, I should also say that it is not as such 'ascribed' to.... but experienced, and noted then! How else does an interdependent organism operating as a whole...
Hi Danielle, Please do not confuse what I think with what I think Spinoza thinks. On certain subjects, it is so hard for me just to understand what Spinoza...
"In addition to these two kinds of knowledge, there is (as I shall show in what follows) another, third kind which we shall call intuitive knowledge. And this...
Hi Fernando, I am sorry that I came across like that. I wish it were possible that each of us could actually say what it is in us that makes this philosopher /...
adline vanlindenbergh <vanlindenbergh@...> wrote:as the exemple "the moon is made of green cheese", you have to see the other proposition "the moon is...
Hi Mark, We are definitely in the same wavelength... Remember I told you I was going to search where Spinoza had explicitly mentioned intuition? I stumbled...
Mark, In this email - see below - that you sent to Danielle is the key to understand why principles - that I have called simple notions - which are expressed...
i have read today that the "understanding" gives "us" a proper balance between our desires. for example: the cat wants to eat a little mouse, but he also his ...
i wasnot sure about how to start the "draft" push button, and the e-mail about the cat, has been, unwantedly, truely, sent to the group. this is terrible! i...
The example I gave of the woman who claimed to have thoughts which came "out of nowhere" was not intended to illustrate intuition, but rather an instance which...
to be alone, or all one, with One Mind. Jesus used the symbol of a bridegroom entering the wedding chamber alone, only alone, and therein united with the ...
