 | Genevieve Lloyd - 1996 - 182 pagina’s
...insight into how things must be. Intuition understands things in relation to God. It 'proceeds from an adequate idea of the formal essence of certain attributes of God to the adequate knowledge of the (formal) essence of things' (IIP40S2). But that does not mean that it has access to a transcendent... | |
 | John Butt - 1997 - 348 pagina’s
...purely through reason, while the third and highest kind is intuition, that which 'proceeds from an adequate idea of the formal essence of certain attributes...to the adequate knowledge of the essence of things' ( Part II, Scholium 2 to proposition 40). Spinoza demonstrates this with a simple mathematical problem,... | |
 | Edward Craig - 1998 - 900 pagina’s
...between properties. Third,level knowledge is intuitive science, which Spinoza says 'advances from an adequate idea of the formal essence of certain attributes...to the adequate knowledge of the essence of things' (Ethics II: pr.XL, schol. 2). Third,level knowledge proceeds from one thing to another in the sense... | |
 | Daniel Garber, Michael Ayers - 1998 - 992 pagina’s
...God (Etnica I) and moves to the human mind (Ethica II), for the surest knowledge 'advances from an adequate idea of the formal essence of certain attributes...of God to the adequate knowledge of the essence of things'.81 Note that it is the essence of things, including the human mind, that Spinoza here said... | |
 | Daniel J. Farrelly - 1998 - 186 pagina’s
...cognoscendi genus procedit ab adaequata idea essentiae formalis quorundam Dei attributorum" (this mode of knowledge proceeds from the adequate idea of the formal essence of certain attributes of God), these few words give me courage to devote my whole life to the contemplation of concrete things."21... | |
 | Rocco J. Gennaro, Charles Huenemann - 1999 - 414 pagina’s
...God; and this is why Spinoza writes in E 2P/inS that knowledge of the third kind "proceeds from an adequate idea of the formal essence of certain attributes...the adequate knowledge of the essence of things." Spinoza is a pivotal figure standing squarely between an older conception of natural philosophy that... | |
 | Y. Masih - 1999 - 606 pagina’s
...thing. Intuition. "Intuitive knowledge", says Spinoza is "that kind of knowing which proceeds from an adequate idea of the formal essence of certain attributes...the adequate knowledge of the essence of things". It is at once immediate and direct and the objects appear as if in a single flash, following from God.... | |
 | Frederick Copleston - 1999 - 388 pagina’s
...disconnected stage reached by a leap or by a mystical process. 'Now this kind of knowing proceeds from an adequate idea of the formal essence of certain attributes...of God to the adequate knowledge of the essence of things.'1 This quotation seems to equate knowledge of the third with knowledge of the second kind;... | |
 | Rocco J. Gennaro, Charles Huenemann - 1999 - 410 pagina’s
...making sense of intuitive knowledge in Spinoza's epistemology: intuitive knowledge "proceeds from an adequate idea of the formal essence of certain attributes of God to the adequate knowledge of the |NS: formal] essence of things" (E IIP 4 oS2). 22. In the Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect,... | |
 | Margaret Dauler Wilson - 1999 - 550 pagina’s
...God's essence with the possibility of achieving the "third kind of knowledge," which "proceeds from an adequate idea of the formal essence of certain attributes of God to adequate knowledge of the essences of things" (£IIp40s2). He comments in £IIp47s: Since all things... | |
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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... 
