Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Lectures on Ethics', 'Notes on Logic' and 'Spinoza's Ethics'

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4 ideas

1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 5. Later European Thought

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Only in the 1780s did it become acceptable to read Spinoza [Lord]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 8. Facts / d. Negative facts

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Facts can be both positive and negative [Wittgenstein, by Potter]

15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 10. Conatus/Striving

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Hobbes and Spinoza use 'conatus' to denote all endeavour for advantage in nature [Lord]

25. Social Practice / F. Life Issues / 4. Suicide

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The maxim for suicide is committed to the value of life, and is thus contradictory [Kant]