The Form of Man: Human Essence in Spinoza's Ethic

absolutely infinite abstract activity adequate idea Aeternitas attributes axiom causa sui causal common notions common properties complex conatus conceived concrete universal consciousness corol corpora simplicissima Correspondence of Spinoza creativity defined definition derived Descartes determinate discursus on body divine nature durational existence entia rationis epistemic epistemology essence and existence essential eternal mode Ethic experience expresses final cause finite individual finite thing freedom Gilles Deleuze God's human essence human mind idea ideae imagination immanent causation individual things infinite intellect infinite modes inseity interpretation intuitive science involves James Martineau man's meaning mind's motion and rest natura naturata necessarily necessity nihil object ontic ontological ontological argument order of nature pantheism perfection phenomenal potency Proposition 21 quatenus quod rational universals reality schol scholium to proposition sense simplest bodies Spinoza writes Spinoza's conception Spinoza's doctrine Spinoza's theory substance Thomas Carson thought tion transcendence truth understand unity whole Wolf London