A literal milestone
Withdrawn and by Jewish-community cursed Spinoza wrote his “Ethics“ under huge fear, pressing decades of collected wisdom into 200 pages.
With the help of axioms, geometric figures, theorems, proofs et cetera.. the reader can relate to his epistemology (although challenging..)
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Notices:
Amor Dei intellectualis - highest possible mental state for human-beings, the spiritual love to god.
Substance = God = Nature
sub specie aeternitatis - If humanity would consider their actions under this premise, would there still be wars and hatred ?
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy on Spinoza:
Sense experience alone could never provide the information conveyed by an adequate idea. The senses present things only as they appear from a given perspective at a given moment in time. An adequate idea, on the other hand, by showing how a thing follows necessarily from one or another of God's attributes, presents it in its "eternal" aspects—sub specie aeternitatis, as Spinoza puts it—without any relation to time. "It is of the nature of Reason to regard things as necessary and not as contingent. And Reason perceives this necessity of things truly, i.e., as it is in itself. But this necessity of things is the very necessity of God's eternal nature. Therefore, it is of the nature of Reason to regard things under this species of eternity" (IIp44).
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!!! Free your Ego, stay away from society, empower your intellectual capacity, take care of your health and listen to the sacred musica universalis !!!
