Hello everyone! I am new to your group. My name is Stephanie and I am a philosophy sudent at UC Berkeley. As you may well imagine, there is no shorage of...
Do you have a Spinoza club at Berkeley? I'm interested because I'm trying to start one at Richland Community College in Dallas County, TX. If so can you tell...
If Berkeley does have a Spinoza club, I am unaware of it. I know that we have a "philosophy" club. While Berkeley offers broad classes, Metaphysics, ...
Dear Stephanie, ... I am the owner of the spinoza-ethics group (as well as a number of other philosophy-related discussion lists sponsored by The Free Lance...
On Sun, 7 Apr 2002, Lancelot R. Fletcher wrote: For the moment I only want to make a very brief comment on one little point -- perhaps in time I can add more. ...
Kelly Timothy Lynch
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Apr 6, 2002 8:45 pm
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Hi Stephanie, A few things came to mind while reading your post: <snip> ... Notice at this point he is still dealing in the abstract with substance and the...
I would, as always, very much welcome personal (e.g. paraphrased) interpretations of IIP40S2[IV]. What does, most specifically, the following mean: "And this...
Hi John, ... Do you have any thoughts (whether clear ideas or not) about a possible meaning of this? If so perhaps it would help you to express them. Otherwise...
This is a future project for me. Probably never will get to it because getting old is a project unto itself. The body is failing and the mind, with all the...
Hi John, ... It's not clear to me what it is that you are saying "proceeds from", "strides on" or "progresses" or whether this "progress" is in time. Also are ...
Dear Terry, Maybe I am not explaining myself properly in English. Please understand that I am not *saying* anything. I am only trying to comprehend what...
Hi John, I assumed (and still assume) from your initial question that you were interested in looking more deeply into Spinoza's Third Kind of Knowledge and ...
Hi Terry et al., ... In my understanding this is exactly what Buddha found himself under the Lindenbaum after 6 years training of zazen. ... This is what...
Hitoshi
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Apr 13, 2002 2:48 pm
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Hi Hitoshi and All, Thank you much for your comments. In my dream world of course I hear a different meaning in them than when more awake but as with Spinoza's...
Dear friends, I also know instances of extraordinary understanding (one moment there and gone the next) but experience them as embedded in the string of...
Dear John, ... They are not at all extraordinary. They are quite usual, daily things. Just suppressed under the name of "consciousness." ... As you used the...
Hitoshi
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Apr 14, 2002 9:28 am
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Hi John, Hitoshi and All, Please note that anything I post on this list is from my own viewpoint and experience. If you find it useful in your study of...
All my life, I guess it's because of the intelligence environment I developed under, the word "Pantheism" was sort of an insult. It's only since I've been able...
... I wrote my commentary on IP5 shortly after posting that message and then started working on IP8S2. Since I have not yet found time to complete the ...
In a message dated 4/14/2002 11:03:09 PM Central Daylight Time, ... Spinoza's pantheism is derived from a much older notion. Stoic pantheism. Stoicism began...
Dear Hitoshi, Your way of looking at time etc is completely foreign to me. Thank you anyway for the trouble. Kind regards, John Willemsens. www.advayavada.nl ...
Dear Terry, Thank you for your remarks. I have no fight with standard, conventional time, as I experience it daily. Each wo/man is around for some 4000 weeks,...
Hi John, ... Neither do I. Spinoza seems to think that most people go to their grave without seeing anything else. But when he refers to Eternity (which he ...
Hi Terry, What I mean to say in the current context of our own finite role in Eternity is that it is I existing over conventional time who from time to time ...
Hi John and All, ... Not knowing what you mean by "I" and "myself" when you say ever shall be in any way timeless I can't really say much --But that seldom...
Hi Terry, The overall conception I have come to have of my individual life is that I am 'existence herenow': I merely am one of the many passing partial ...
Hi John and All, Thank You for your explanation. You mentioned that this "higher truth" is said to be "non-conceptual" or "empty of human projections" and of...
[Please Note: I sent the original copy of this message 6 hours ago and it did not show up so I'm trying again. I apologize if two copies are eventually posted....
John: In your reply to Terry's (as usual) excellent response, you point out that [even] Spinoza's intuition stands on the shoulders of reason. Right, but the...
