 | G.A. Wells - 1979 - 194 pagina’s
...And when Spinoza speaks of 'intuitive knowledge,' and says: 'This species of knowing proceeds from an adequate idea of the formal essence of certain attributes...the adequate knowledge of the essence of things': these few words give me the courage to devote my whole life to the contemplation of things that are... | |
 | Marx W. Wartofsky - 1979 - 428 pagina’s
...knowledge', namely that which he defines as 'intuitive science': 'This kind of knowing advances from an adequate idea of the formal essence of certain attributes...to the adequate knowledge of the essence of things' (II P40 Note 2). This, it seems to me, is the central claim Spinoza makes for the possibility of knowledge,... | |
 | Jonathan Bennett - 1984 - 420 pagina’s
...... a third kind, which we shall call intuitive knowledge. This kind of cognition proceeds from an adequate idea of the formal essence of certain attributes of God to an adequate cognition of the essences of things. We are not helped to understand this by the relevant... | |
 | S. Paul Kashap - 1987 - 218 pagina’s
...things in the world. Such knowledge, as Spinoza puts it, "advances from an adequate idea of the ... essence of certain attributes of God to the adequate knowledge of the essence of things" (E II, 40 S2). To know the existence of things as following from their essence is to know things as... | |
 | Lucia Lermond - 1988 - 108 pagina’s
...It is direct intuition into the essences of individual things. This kind of knowing advances from an adequate idea of the formal essence of certain attributes...to the adequate knowledge of the essence of things. (schol. 2 prop. 40, II) Atque hoc cognoscendi genus procedit ab adaequata idea essentiae formalis quorundam... | |
 | Edwin M. Curley, Pierre-François Moreau - 1990 - 428 pagina’s
...related. Intuitive knowledge is not opposed to deduction: knowledge of the third kind 'proceeds from an adequate idea of the formal essence of certain attributes of God to the adequate knowledge of the (formal) essence of things" (E IIP40S2). But this definition seems compatible with the proposition... | |
 | Edwin M. Curley, Pierre-François Moreau - 1990 - 428 pagina’s
...following definition, which occurs twice in the book : The third kind of knowledge proceeds from an adequate idea of [the formal essence of] certain attributes of God to an adequate knowledge of the essence of things (IIP40S2; VP25D; in the latter the bracketed phrase... | |
 | Antonio Negri - 2000 - 308 pagina’s
...mind is emphasized) consists of understanding: of the passing and advancing from the adequate idea of certain attributes of God to the adequate knowledge of the essence of things. The continuity canatiis-patentu-mens is then confirmed and anchored m the divine material itself. Knowledge... | |
 | Yirmiyahu Yovel - 1992 - 268 pagina’s
...following definition, which occurs twice in the book: The third kind of knowledge proceeds from an adequate idea of [the formal essence of] certain attributes of God to an adequate knowledge of the essence of things. (Pt. 2, prop. 40; pt. 5, prop. 25, dem; in the latter... | |
 | Michael Della Rocca - 1996 - 238 pagina’s
...particular thing. By contrast, the third kind of knowledge, or intuitive knowledge, "proceeds from an adequate idea of the formal essence of certain attributes...the adequate knowledge of the essence of things." It is clear from other passages in which Spinoza employs this notion that the adequate knowledge of... | |
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I shall call reason and knowledge of the second kind. Besides these two kinds of knowledge, there is a third, as I shall hereafter show, which we shall call intuitive science. This kind of Joiowing advances from an adequate idea of the formal essence... 
