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Full Idea
The human mind cannot be absolutely destroyed with the body, but something of it remains which is eternal.
Gist of Idea
After death, something eternal remains of the mind
Source
Baruch de Spinoza (The Ethics [1675], V Pr 23)
Book Ref
Spinoza,Benedict de: 'Ethics', ed/tr. Curley,Edwin [Penguin 1996], p.172
A Reaction
This sounds contrary to Spinoza's monism of mind and body, but he seems to mean little more than that minds are reabsorbed into the whole. See Beth Lord's commentary [p.146]. Compare stoics on the subject.