... In the sense of the "common" order and connection of causes, etc? That seems another avenue of investigation that is psychological in the sense that it ...
... etc. etc. etc. Great posting, SunHunter. Now, for a dream. Berkeley Chapter of Spinoza Society protesting using Spinoza's ETHICS. Wait a minute: revision...
Dear SunHunter, Ethel, et al: I have no real objection to long messages, but then I am a retired person with more time on my hands than I know what to do with....
... ======================== And for these very reasons I selected the following quotes from ETHICS to explain Spinoza in September to try to recruit for an...
Is this where we are? Please correct me. Seems we've been discussing this all along? ... About this last issue with the sun. We know the cause of this fancy...
Dear SunHunter, Ethel et al: In responding to my use of the term "intellectual order" to describe the appearance in my mind of a desire to await a certain...
I, intuitively, believe that the inclusion of ETHICS in all religious institutions would enhance the institutions. Unlike agnostics and atheists, I don't...
Dear SunHunter, Ethel, et al: SunHunter wrote: "...often when I find myself envisioning how I will respond to possible difficulties, I also find that my...
... <snip > < I don't believe in the destruction of religious institutions, but rather ... belief ... socialization and ... to get ... <snip> Ethel: I've been...
... Yes, and they have the possibility thereby of acting courageously, which may be opposed to fear in the bodily sense, but when attributed to the mind, seems...
... ==================== I can't believe you picked this example, Frank. I lived it. I was a programmer before there were commercial software packages. So each...
"...[T]hen there is...clipped speech, 'sketches and scenes,' scepticism and misanthropy. I read a piece like that the other day. - -'A grey day, like...
Dear Ethel: Maybe Jung was right and there is no such thing as a coincidence. I did my time as a programmer, too, though most of my sentence was served as a...
... ==================================== Isn't this all offtopic? But I have to respond publicly. Agreed all the way to the reference to MM. I think of the...
Dear Ethel, SunHunter et al: In the post which set this series of responses into motion, I wrote... "Now, it is clear to me that this desire [to delay mowing...
Sorry about the sending of Frank's last post to the list. I was simply composing and suddenly it was sent. My cursor is jumping around quite a bit now. -- ...
Hi, list-members, I would like to know how to get a copy of the complete works of Spinoza in latin (that is to say, in their original, not translated). I...
Hi Emilio, For online Latin Spinoza texts see Rudolf W. Meijer's excellent site: http://rwmeijer.ws/spinoza I don't know about any currently available printed...
I came across this gem from the Enyc Judaica. I found it years ago and lost it. It explained a lot for me about what really goes on with the distribution of...
Ethel: You wrote: "I don't think Spinoza thought of 'the masses'." What do you mean? 1) That Spinoza never tried to "hide" things from the masses? 2) That his...
... =========== All three, because I think ETHICS is a guide to teach all human beings to think for themselves, especially in self-analysis. At that time, the...
Also, forgot the most important clue. In reading about Galileo's treatment, well, it seems that he wrote in Italian instead of the scholarly Latin, which the...
... OK, let's first agree on our terms. Pantheism means that God and Nature (the world or universe) are one and the same. Panentheism means that Nature is _in_...
Dear Blake, Well, no, I am only wondering/asking whether Spinozism is a panentheism. The idea I have gathered of panentheism is rather the following: God...
You seem to be implying that there is something more than the physical realm (with respect to the attribute of extension). Or, put another way, you seem to...
Dear Blake, I must stress again that I am not implying anything. I was just wondering/asking whether Spinozism should be considered or not a panentheism,...
Blake wrote: "The physical universe (or the attribute of extension) is all there is, period. The attribute of thought (with respect to God) is all there is,...
... There are two ways of viewing thought within a man. One is in respect to God and the other with respect to the man. See 2P36 Dem. Here is how it works. ...
