Spinoza as Educator, Nummer 38Teachers College, Columbia University, 1911 - 87 pagina's |
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26 Ibid 41 Ethics 48 Ethics according activity adequate ideas appendix appetite attain attribute of thought basis Blyenbergh bodily Burgh causal chapter co-operation Cogitata Metaphysica common conatus conceived conception consciousness constitutes Correspondence definition Descartes desire effect efficient cause elements emotions ence endeavor essay existence experience extension external causes fact finite follow forces Hence human body human essence human mind human nature Ibid ideata ideatum imagination inasmuch individual infinite Intellectus Emendatione kind of knowledge Kuno Fischer laws of thought man's essence means method mind and body modifications object order and connection Pantheism particular things perfection person physical principle prop rational reason relation Schopenhauer social Spinoza recognized Spinoza's philosophy Spinoza's theory subjectivism subsumed tabula rasa teach teacher thinking things tion Tractatus Politicus Tractatus Theologico-Politicus Treatise true understand universe virtue whole of nature words
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Pagina 78 - The general belief of the multitude seems to be different. Most people seem to believe that they are free, in so far as they may obey their lusts, and that they cede their rights, in so far as they are bound to live according to the commandments of the divine law. They therefore believe that piety, religion, and generally, all things attributable to firmness of mind, are burdens, which, after death, they hope to lay aside, and to receive the reward for their bondage, that is, for their piety and...
Pagina 65 - I. To speak in a manner intelligible to the multitude, and to comply with every general custom that does not hinder the attainment of our purpose. For we can gain from the multitude no small advantages, provided that we strive to accommodate ourselves to its understanding as far as possible : moreover, we shall in this way gain a friendly audience for the reception of the truth.
Pagina 79 - The best we can do, therefore, so long as we do not possess a perfect knowledge of our emotions, is to frame a system of right conduct, or fixed practical precepts, to commit it to memory, and to apply it forthwith[ 16] to the particular circumstances which now and again meet us in life, so that our imagination may become fully imbued therewith, and that it may be always ready to our hand.
Pagina 71 - Whence it follows, that if anyone wishes to teach a doctrine to a whole nation (not to speak of the whole human race), and to be understood by all men in every particular, he will seek to support his teaching with experience, and will endeavour to suit his reasonings and the definitions of...
Pagina 59 - The more perfection a thing has, the more does it partici pate in the deity, and the more does it express perfection. Thus, as the good have incomparably more perfection than the bad, their virtue cannot be likened to the virtue of the wicked, inasmuch as the wicked lack the love of God, which proceeds from the knowledge...
Pagina 60 - But human power is extremely limited, and is infinitely surpassed by the power of external causes; we have not, therefore, an absolute power of shaping to our use those things which are without us. Nevertheless, we shall bear with an equal mind all that happens to us in contravention to the claims of our own advantage, so long as we are conscious, that we have done our duty, and that the power which we possess is not sufficient to enable us to protect ourselves completely...
Pagina 60 - ... are without us. Nevertheless, we shall bear with an equal mind all that happens to us in contravention to the claims of our own advantage, so long as we are conscious, that we have done our duty, and that the power which we possess is not sufficient to enable us to protect ourselves completely; remembering that we are a part of universal nature, and that we follow her order.
Pagina 60 - ... we are a part of universal nature, and that we follow her order. If we have a clear and distinct understanding of this, that part of our nature which is defined by intelligence, in other words the better part of ourselves, will assuredly acquiesce in what befalls us, and in such acquiescence will endeavour to persist.
Pagina 29 - For the human body is composed of very numerous parts, of diverse nature, which continually stand in need of fresh and varied nourishment, so that the whole body may be equally capable of performing all the actions, which follow...
Pagina 85 - ... conceive more distinctly and vividly, the greater is the power of the mind over the emotions, as experience also testifies. For we see, that the pain arising from the loss of any good is mitigated, as soon as the man who has lost it perceives, that it could not by any means have been preserved. So also we see that no one pities an infant, because it cannot speak, walk, or reason, or lastly, because it passes so many years, as it were, in unconsciousness. Whereas, if most people were born full-grown...