 | Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.) - 1921 - 492 pagina’s
...law; therefore man is under necessity — to be a moral being, not a non-moral. "He who knows rightly that all things follow from the necessity of the divine nature, and come to pass according to the eternal laws and rules of Nature, will forsooth find nothing worthy of Hatred, Laughter,... | |
 | Genevieve Lloyd - 1996 - 182 pagina’s
...free'. Out of the recognition of our modal status comes true freedom - the rational mind's understanding that 'all things follow from the necessity of the divine nature', and that hence whatever it sees as troublesome or evil arises from its own disordered, mutilated and confused... | |
 | Aaron Ben-Ze'Ev - 2001 - 642 pagina’s
...emotions are less intense. Spinoza emphasizes this variable, arguing that the wise man "who rightly knows that all things follow from the necessity of the divine nature, and happen according to the eternal laws and rules of nature, will surely find nothing worthy of hate,... | |
 | J. B. Schneewind - 2003 - 696 pagina’s
...what we have noted in P50S and in other places: a man strong in character considers this most of all, that all things follow from the necessity of the divine nature, and hence, that whatever he thinks is troublesome and evil, and moreover, whatever seems immoral, dreadful,... | |
 | Benedict de Spinoza - 2006 - 465 pagina’s
...pity from misery, is an action which we desire to do solely at the dictation of reason (IV. xxxvil); only at the dictation of reason are we able to perform..."bestow pity on anything, but to the utmost extent o£ human virtue he will endeavor to do well, as the saying is, and to rejoice. We may add, that he,... | |
 | Steven Nadler - 2006 - 275 pagina’s
...behavior toward others — mockery, disdain, blame, praise, anger, and vengeance. He who rightly knows that all things follow from the necessity of the divine nature, and happen according to the eternal laws and rules of nature, will surely find nothing worthy of hate,... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1878 - 1366 pagina’s
...the good actions to which we may be prompted by Pity, wo are equally prompted by Reason. He who knows that all things follow from the necessity of the Divine Nature, and Uike placo according to nature's eternal laws, will certainly find nothing that deserves either hatred,... | |
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He who rightly realizes, that all things follow from the necessity of the divine nature, and come to pass in accordance with the eternal laws and rules of nature, will not find anything worthy of hatred, derision, or contempt, nor will he bestow pity... 
