The Philosophy of Spinoza as Contained in the First, Second, and Fifth Parts of the "Ethics,"H. Holt, 1894 - 358 pagina's |
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absolutely infinite abstract absurd action actually existing adequate ideas affirmation argument attri attribute thought axiom belongs causa sui causality ceived clear and distinct common comprehend conceived by means conception concrete considered constitutes the essence corporeal substance corresponding deduced deny Descartes desire distinguished divine nature efficient cause emotions endeavor eternal and infinite eternal things Ethics everything expresses external bodies external cause finite fixed and eternal follows form of eternity God's Hence highly composite human body human mind images imagine individual things inferred infinity of things intellect Introductory Note involve kind of knowledge knowl merely mode of thinking modifications motion natura naturans object passion perfection pleasure preceding proposition Proof prove Q. E. D. Corollary Q. E. D. PROP real things reason referred regard relation schol second place sense series of fixed Spinozistic substance third kind tion true idea truth universal vidual wholly words world of essences
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Pagina 131 - 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 99 - God has the idea of the human body, or knows the human body, in so far as he is affected by very many other ideas, and not in so far as he constitutes the nature of the human mind; that is (by II.
Pagina 200 - 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 86 - God has this or that idea, not in so far as he is infinite, but in so far as he is displayed through the nature of the human mind...
Pagina 102 - ... referred to God, in so far as he constitutes the essence of the human mind; therefore (by the same Coroll.
Pagina 31 - Therefore, for a person to say that he has a clear and distinct — that is, a true — idea of a substance, but that he is not sure whether such substance exists, would be the same as if he said that he had a true idea, but was not sure whether or no it was false...
Pagina 241 - Coroll.) the idea of this modification, in so far as it involves the property A, will be adequate in God, in so far as God is affected by the idea of the human body; that is (II. xiii.), in so far as he constitutes the nature of the human mind; therefore (II.
Pagina 120 - Ax. iv.) the conception of the attribute of those ideas - that is (I. vi.), the eternal and infinite essence of God. QED Note. - By existence I do not here mean duration - that is, existence in so far as it is conceived abstractedly, and as a certain form of quantity. I am speaking of the very nature of existence, which is assigned to particular things, because they follow in infinite numbers and in infinite ways from the eternal necessity of God's nature (I. xvi.). I am speaking, I repeat, of the...
Pagina 86 - ... in so far as he constitutes the essence of the human mind, has this or that idea...
Pagina 25 - By substance, 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.