Akin to Einstein's heuristic advice is Latin's "Solvitur ambulando." Einstein seems to appear in Spinoza reverence circles regularly. This thread reminded me strongly of a comment Einstein made in his encomium to Spinoza, "Zu Spinozas Ethik" (1920). You
----- Original Message ----- From: Donovan Rundle donovanrundle@^$1 [spinoza] To: spinoza@^$2 Sent: Saturday, July 18, 2015 1:18 PM Subject: Re: [spinoza] Re: A question to Blake BTW, have you seen Bentham’s mummy? Quite a treasure. One wonders, is
Blake may know but take for granted an important aspect of the part of Spinoza (or of PeeWee Herman) which lives on after death. Blake's description of the immortal aspects of individual thought requires a human (or sentient) community to preserve
Luis et al -- Pardon delayed response. Masked strangers drugged me and have been carving on my eyeballs. Everything's fine now. One difficulty or annoyance I have with these list discussions is their powerful tendency to regard Spinoza as a transcendent
45 years ago, in Truth and Beauty 101 at NYU, I got an A on my Kant midterm. When we got the papers back, the guy behind me -- his paper had a big D -- was leaning over trying to read my essay. I quickly covered it up, and forbade him from reading it
