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18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 3. Emotions / a. Nature of emotions
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Emotion is a modification of bodily energy, controlling our actions [Spinoza]
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18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 3. Emotions / e. Basic emotions
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The three primary emotions are pleasure, pain and desire [Spinoza]
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The three primary emotions are pleasure, pain, and desire [Spinoza, by Goldie]
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18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 3. Emotions / f. Emotion and reason
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Minds are subject to passions if they have inadequate ideas [Spinoza]
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An emotion is only bad if it hinders us from thinking [Spinoza]
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18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 3. Emotions / g. Controlling emotions
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Plato wanted to somehow control and purify the passions [Vlastos on Plato]
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Stoics want to suppress emotions, but Spinoza overcomes them with higher emotions [Spinoza, by Stewart,M]
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An emotion comes more under our control in proportion to how well it is known to us [Spinoza]
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18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 6. Judgement / b. Error
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People make calculation mistakes by misjudging the figures, not calculating them wrongly [Spinoza]
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18. Thought / C. Content / 2. Ideas
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Ideas are powerful entities, which can produce further ideas [Spinoza, by Schmid]
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An 'idea' is a mental conception which is actively formed by the mind in thinking [Spinoza]
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Ideas are not images formed in the brain, but are the conceptions of thought [Spinoza]
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An idea involves affirmation or negation [Spinoza]
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18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 1. Abstract Thought
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'Abstract' nowadays means outside space and time, not concrete, not physical [Brown,JR]
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The older sense of 'abstract' is where 'redness' or 'group' is abstracted from particulars [Brown,JR]
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