'For the person or persons that hold dominion, can no more combine with the keeping up of majesty the running with harlots drunk or naked about the streets, or the performances of a stage player, or the open violation or contempt of laws passed by themselves than they can combine existence with non-existence'.

- Benedict de Spinoza. Political Treatise. 1677.




Sunday, November 17, 2013

Spinoza: Nature and Origin of the Mind: Definitions



body


the conception of extension


essence


that without which a thing can neither exist or be conceived –

a conception

a thing exists –

in terms of its conception –

in terms of a description


idea


a conception


adequate idea


the idea of idea


duration


the conception of continuation


reality and perfection


the unknown

all knowledge is imperfect –

and therefore perfection is –

the absence of knowledge


individual thing


finite and determinate existence

a thing exists –

in terms of its description


© greg t. charlton. 2013.