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'Mechanisms', 'The Ethics' and 'Reflections on my Critics'
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15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 1. Mind / a. Mind
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The human mind is the very idea or knowledge of the human body [Spinoza]
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15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 1. Mind / b. Purpose of mind
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Knowledge is the essence of the mind [Spinoza]
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15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 1. Mind / c. Features of mind
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Will and intellect are the same thing [Spinoza]
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The will is finite, but the intellect is infinite [Spinoza]
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The will is not a desire, but the faculty of affirming what is true or false [Spinoza]
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15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 5. Unity of Mind
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Spinoza held that the mind is just a bundle of ideas [Spinoza, by Schmid]
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15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 7. Animal Minds
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Animals are often observed to be wiser than people [Spinoza]
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15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 1. Consciousness / d. Purpose of consciousness
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To understand is the absolute virtue of the mind [Spinoza]
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15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 1. Faculties
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Faculties are either fictions, or the abstract universals of ideas [Spinoza]
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15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 8. Remembering Contiguity
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If the body is affected by two things together, the imagining of one will conjure up the other [Spinoza]
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15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 10. Conatus/Striving
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Our own force of persevering is nothing in comparison with external forces [Spinoza]
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As far as possible, everything tries to persevere [Spinoza]
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The conatus (striving) of mind and body together is appetite, which is the essence of man [Spinoza]
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