 | Benedictus de Spinoza - 1891 - 470 pagina’s
...would rather abuse or deride human emotions than understand them. Such persons will, doubtless tHnk it strange that I should attempt to treat of human...which, by itself, its effect cannot be understood. H. I say that we act when anything takes place, either within us or externally to us, whereof we are... | |
 | Paul Janet, Gabriel Séailles - 1902 - 434 pagina’s
...accomplishes nothing beyond displaying the acuteness of his own great intellect (Eth. Part III, Pref.). " I shall therefore treat of the nature and strength...though I were concerned with lines, planes, and solids " (Ibid.). It would be interesting to follow Spinoza's deduction step by step, to analyze his demonstrations,... | |
 | Ray Madding McConnell - 1912 - 356 pagina’s
...efficacy of nature; they answer to certain definite causes, through which they are understood. ... I shall consider human actions and desires in exactly...I were concerned with lines, planes, and solids." * "An infant believes that of its own free will it desires milk, an angry child believes that it freely... | |
 | Ray Madding McConnell - 1912 - 356 pagina’s
...efficacy of nature; they answer to certain definite causes, through which they are understood. ... I shall consider human actions and desires in exactly...I were concerned with lines, planes, and solids." 1 "An infant believes that of its own free will it desires milk, an angry child believes that it freely... | |
 | Conwy Lloyd Morgan - 1926 - 344 pagina’s
...phenomena." Not so did he treat of them. And here my cry is : Back to Spinoza. Does this mean that I too " shall consider human actions and desires in exactly...I were concerned with lines, planes, and solids"? Not so, unless in accordance with the trend of his teaching we may translate " geometrically " into... | |
 | James Ward, Olwen Ward Campbell - 1927 - 420 pagina’s
...everybody knows — actually made the attempt. " I shall consider human actions and desires," he said, "in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes and solids."1 Physics succeeded before long in partially reaching the deductive level, and was known henceforth... | |
 | John Herman Randall (Jr.) - 1926 - 672 pagina’s
...order that he has absolute control over his actions, and that he is determined solely by himself. . . . Nothing comes to pass in nature, which can be set...as though I were concerned with lines, planes, and solids.36 And so he wrote his great work, Ethics demonstrated in the Geometrical Manner. We cannot... | |
 | John Herman Randall - 1976 - 722 pagina’s
...order that he has absolute control over his actions, and that he is determined solely by himself. . . . Nothing comes to pass in nature, which can be set...I were concerned with lines, planes, and solids." And so he wrote his great work, Ethics demonstrated in the Geometrical Manner. We cannot touch on the... | |
 | Samuel Hugo Bergman, emû'?l Hûgô Bergman - 1991 - 278 pagina’s
...philosophical inquiry. Spinoza's famous words at the end of the introduction to the third part of the Ethics, "I shall consider human actions and desires in exactly...though I were concerned with lines, planes and solids," are typical of the objectivist approach to philosophy. As the creator of a philosophical system, the... | |
 | Richard Schacht - 1995 - 304 pagina’s
...nature of all things whatsoever, namely, through universal laws and rules," he then concludes by saying: "I shall consider human actions and desires in exactly...though I were concerned with lines, planes, and solids" (emphasis added). Spinoza's interpretation and treatment of nature in general, and therefore of "human... | |
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Nothing comes to pass in nature, which can be set down to a flaw therein ; for nature is always the same, and everywhere one and the same in her efficacy and power of action ; that is, nature's laws and ordinances, whereby all things come to pass and... 
