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 Nature and Origin 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

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T. Fischer Unwin, 1894 - 297 pagina's
 

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Pagina lxxxviii - 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.
Pagina 218 - 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 66 - The order and connection of ideas is the same as the order and connection of things.
Pagina xci - But those things which are conceived in this second way as true or real we conceive under the form of eternity, and their ideas involve the eternal and infinite essence of God, as we have shown in Prop.
Pagina xciv - 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 ciii - By substance, I understand that which is in itself and is conceived through itself; in other words, that, the conception of which does not need the conception of another thing from which it must be formed.
Pagina 67 - ... only in so far as he constitutes the essence of the human mind.
Pagina 24 - ... 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 civ - That thing is called free which exists from the necessity of its own nature alone, and is determined to action by itself alone. That thing, on the other hand, is called necessary, or rather compelled, which by another is determined to existence and action in a fixed and prescribed manner.
Pagina 96 - MOST writers on the emotions and on human conduct seem to be treating rather of matters outside nature than of natural phenomena following nature's general laws. They appear to conceive man to be situated in nature as a kingdom within a kingdom...

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