Spinoza: Four EssaysWilliams and Norgate, 1882 - 170 páginas |
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Página 60 - Whatever power such a being may have over me, there is one thing which he shall not do : he shall not compel me to worship him. I will call no being good, who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellowcreatures ; and if such a being can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go.
Página 59 - ... necesse est tantum de Natura intelligere, quantum sufficit, ad talem naturam acquirendam; deinde formare talem societatem, qualis est desideranda, ut quamplurimi quam facillime, et secure eo perveniant.
Página 50 - Per causam sui intelligo id, cuius essentia involvit existentiam, sive id, cuius natura non potest concipi nisi existens
Página 60 - Fateor quidem pie hoc posse dici , modo a pio animo proficiscatur, naturam esse Deum; sed quia dura est et impropria loquutio quum potius natura sit ordo a Deo praescriptus , in rebus tanti ponderis, et quibus debetur singularis religio, involvere confuse Deum cum inferiore operum suorum cursu, noxium est.
Página 170 - Schleiermacher, pay the homage of the best we can do to the ashes of the holy and misunderstood Spinoza : " The sublime spirit of the world penetrated him ; the infinite was his beginning and his end ; the universal his only and eternal love.
Página 141 - ... sustain his body on good food forever, were to decide to glut himself on poisons and deadly fare; or, on realizing that the mind is not eternal or immortal, he preferred to be mad and to live without reason. Such attitudes are so absurd that they are scarcely worth recounting. Proposition 42. Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself. We do not enjoy blessedness because we keep our lusts in check. On the contrary, it is because we enjoy blessedness that we are able to keep our...
Página 156 - The final end of the State," he says, " consists not in dominating over men, restraining them by fears, subjecting them to the will of others, but, on the contrary, in permitting each one to live in all possible security ; that is to say, in preserving intact the natural right of each to live without injury to himself or others. -No, I say, the State has not for its end the transformation of men from reasonable beings into animals or automata; it has for end so to act that its citizens should in...
Página 47 - Tract on the Rainbow," Spinoza's sole scientific treatise, with a " Collection of Letters " and a "Biography" was published in Amsterdam in 1862. The " Ethics " proper is entitled : " Ethica : ordine geometrice demonstrata, et in quinque partes distincta, in quibus agitur ; I. de Deo ; II. de natura et origine mentis ; III. de natura et origine affectuum; IV.
Página 59 - Hic est itaque finis, ad quem tendo, talem scilicet naturam acquirere, et, ut multi mecum eam acquirant, conari ; hoc est, de mea felicitate etiam est operam dare, ut alii multi idem atque ego intelligant, ut eorum intellectus, et cupiditas prorsus cum meo intellectu, et cupiditate conveniant...
Página 53 - Je trouve en général qu'il philosophe beaucoup mieux que le vulgaire , en ce qu'il quitte le plus qu'il peut les erreurs de l'école , et tâche à examiner les matières physiques par des raisons mathématiques. En cela je m'accorde entièrement avec lui , et je tiens qu'il n'ya point d'autre moyen pour trouver la vérité.