Spinoza's Short Treatise on God, Man and His WellbeingA. and C. Black, 1910 - 246 pages |
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according affirmation or denial already Amsterdam arise attributes BENEDICTUS DE SPINOZA Blyenbergh body Cartesian causa chapter Christian Huygens codex Colerus conceived copy created definition Descartes Desire Dialogue distinction Dutch effect essence eternal Ethics evil exist in Nature extension external causes feeling finite follows formaliter Freudenthal friends Grand Pensionary Hague happens hatred Hebrew Henry Oldenburg idea immediately impossible infinite Jan de Witt Jewish Jews known Latin Leibniz letter lines Maimonides Manasseh ben Israel manuscript Maranos means mind modes of thought Monnikhoff motion and rest namely Natura naturata necessarily Netherlands never object Oldenburg omits opinion passions perfect philosophy probably produce proportion of motion Rabbi realised reference regards remarked Rieuwertsz Rijnsburg Schol seems Short Treatise Sigwart sorrow soul Spinoza spirits substance Synagogue thing of Reason thinking thing tion Tractatus Theologico-Politicus translation true belief truth understanding Voorburg whole words writings
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Page 226 - The wages of sin is death : if the wages of Virtue be dust, Would she have heart to endure for the life of the worm and the fly ? She desires no isles of the blest, no quiet seats of the just, To rest in a golden grove, or to bask in a summer sky : Give her the wages of going on, and not to die.
Page 225 - Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us; because he hath given us of his Spirit.
Page xlvi - Lord burn upon this man, and bring upon him all the curses which are written in the Book of the Law. The Lord blot out his name under heaven.
Page l - Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears; Man gets no other light, Search he a thousand years. Sink in thyself ! there ask what ails thee, at that shrine.
Page 109 - For we have said that the understanding is purely passive; it is an awareness, in the soul, of the essence and existence of things; so that it is never we who affirm or deny something of a thing, but it is the thing itself that affirms or denies, in us, something of itself.
Page 197 - It is an established fact that species have no existence except in our own minds. Species and other classes are merely ideas formed in our minds, whilst everything in real existence is an individual object, or an aggregate of individual objects.
Page 220 - Now as to what concerns ideas, if we consider them only in themselves and do not relate them to anything else beyond themselves, they cannot properly speaking be false; for whether I imagine a goat or a chimera, it is not less true that I imagine the one that the other.
Page 233 - Imagine a person being alone, and having no connection whatever with any other person; all his good moral principles are at rest, they are not required and give man no perfection whatever. These principles are only necessary and useful when man comes in contact with others.
Page 226 - But now apart from the law a righteousness of God hath been manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets ; even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ unto all them that believe...
Page 215 - He who rightly realizes that all things follow from the necessity of the divine nature, and come to pass in accordance with the eternal laws and rules of nature, will not find anything worthy of hatred, derision, or contempt, nor will he bestow pity on anything...