Ethic Demonstrated in Geometrical Order and Divided Into Five Parts, which Treat I. Of God. II. Of the Nature and Origin of the Mind. III. Of the Origin and Nature of the Affects. IV. Of Human Bondage, Or of the Strength of the Affects. V. Of the Power of the Intellect, Or of Human Liberty

Voorkant
Trübner & Company, 1883 - 297 pagina's
 

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v
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xxxix
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43
IV
100
V
172
VI
246

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Pagina 48 - But (II. vii.) the order and connection of ideas is the same as the order and connection of causes...
Pagina xxxix - I mean that which is in itself, and is conceived through itself; in other words, that of which a conception can be formed independently of any other conception.
Pagina 49 - Thus, whether we conceive nature under the attribute of extension, or under the attribute of thought, or under any other attribute...
Pagina 272 - God loves himself, not in: so far as he is infinite, but in so far as he can be explained through the essence of the human mind regarded under the form of eternity; in other words, the intellectual love of the mind towards God is part of the infinite love wherewith God loves himself.
Pagina 69 - ... only in so far as he constitutes the essence of the human mind.
Pagina 222 - Is it true of the idea of a triangle, that its three angles are equal to two right ones ? It is true also of a triangle, wherever it really exists.
Pagina 26 - ... that which is in itself, and is conceived through itself, or those attributes of substance, which express eternal and infinite essence, in other words (Prop. xiv. Coroll. i., and Prop. xvii. Coroll. ii.) God, in so far as he is considered as a free cause.
Pagina 156 - But, in the same note, I also remarked that, strictly speaking, I recognize no distinction between appetite and desire. For whether a man be conscious of his appetite or not, it remains one and the same appetite.
Pagina 3 - ... of Prop. vii. : for such persons make no distinction between the modifications of substances and the substances themselves, and are ignorant of the manner in which things are produced ; hence they attribute to substances the beginning which they observe in natural objects.
Pagina 83 - This kind of knowledge proceeds from an adequate idea of the absolute essence of certain attributes of God to the adequate knowledge of the essence of things.

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