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December 21st, 2006, search relatedRelated posts :: my doctor tells me :: my doctor tells me :: my doctor tells me :: my doctor tells me
Allen,
I remember having a brief discussion with you on Spinoza a long time ago.
Can’t remember what I said but I do remember it held the aproval of my
understanding. I came across this hypertext of Spinoza which is good for
exploring him through the good linking it provides. For instance I was
clicking on the links stemming from this text where it says “small print,
logical index”:
Def. II. (1) I say that we act when anything takes place, either within
us or externally to us, whereof we are the adequate cause;
that is (by the foregoing definition) when through our nature
something takes place within us or externally to us, which
can through our nature alone be clearly and distinctly under-
stood {PcM}. (2) On the other hand, I say that we are passive
Bk.XIV:2:1891.
as regards something when that something takes place with-
in us, or follows from our nature externally, we being only
the { inadequate, } partial cause { that is not clearly
and distinctly
understood. } 3P1; 4P2, 5, 15, 23, 33, 35, 35C1,
52, 61, 64.
