#baruch spinoza ethics

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“We feel and know that we are eternal.” - Baruch Spinoza

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Poor Things (2023) by Yorgos Lanthimos

Book title: Ethics, Demonstrated in Geometrical Order (Ethica, ordine geometrico demonstrata in Latin; 1677) by Baruch Spinoza

[philosophybits]

Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love.

Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

[quotessentially]

From Baruch Spinoza’s Ethics

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"please elaborate on the differences that you, the theorist of the concept of God Or Nature, believe exist between the concepts of God and Nature"

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this and a bunt

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“The temptation which may arise is to take aesthetic things as a model in thinking of moral things.” (Jacques Maritain, An Introduction to the Basic Problems of Moral Philosophy.)

[the-ephemeral-ethereal]

The Inside Out Emotions Defined as The Affects in Ethics by Baruch Spinoza

Joy - "Joy is a man's passage from a lesser to a greater perfection."

2. Sadness - "Sadness is a man's passage from a greater to a lesser perfection."

3. Fear - "Fear is an inconstant sadness, born of the idea of a future or past thing whose outcome we to some extent doubt."

4. Envy - "Envy is hate insofar as it so affects a man that he is saddened by another's happiness and, conversely, glad at his ill fortune. To envy one commonly opposes compassion."

5. Anger - "Anger is a desire by which we are spurred, from hate, to do evil to one we hate."

6. Disgust - Spinoza does not explicitly address disgust, but in his definition of desire, it could be extrapolated that he might've described disgust as a sated appetite.

7. Ennui - Spinoza also does not explicitly address ennui or boredom, but again in his definition of desire, it could be extrapolated that he might've described ennui as the lack of desire.

8. Anxiety - Spinoza also does not explicitly address anxiety, but in his definition of fear, it could be extrapolated that he might've described anxiety as fear of a future without hope.

9. Embarrassment - Spinoza also does not explicitly address embarrassment, but he does define shame, which could be a very comparable emotional affect. He defines shame as follows: "Shame is a sadness, accompanied by the idea of some action [of ours] which we imagine that others blame."

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يظن الناس أنفسهم أحرارًا لأنهم شاعرون بإرادتهم ورغباتهم، ولكنهم يجهلون الأسباب التي أفضت بهم إلى الإرادة والرغبة

باروخ سبينوزا | الأخلاق

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"Whoever loves God must not expect God to love him in return."

Baruch Spinoza

The Ethics

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"[...] I do not know why matter should be unworthy of the divine nature, since there can be no substance external to God by which it can be acted upon. All things, I repeat, are in God, and all things that come to pass do so only through the laws of God's infinite nature and follow from the necessity of his essence."

- Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

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« vi. Love is pleasure, accompanied by the idea of an external cause.

vii. Hatred is pain, accompanied by the idea of an external cause.

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x. Devotion is love towards one whom we admire.

xi. Derision is pleasure arising from our conceiving the presence of a trait, which we despise, in an object which we hate.

[…]

All happiness or unhappiness depends solely on the quality of the object to which we are bound by love. »

— Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

[philosophybits]

If anyone conceives that he is loved by another, and believes that he has given no cause for such love, he will love that other in return.

Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

[quotessentially]

From Baruch Spinoza’s Ethics

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thank you dear @nelyastudies for the tag, this post will be forcing me to actually make time to read this year since I’m sharing my tbr (to be read) list! my goal isn’t much, only 13 books this year but it’s waaayyy better than last year 🫣

sevgili @/nelyastudies’e etketi için teşekkür ederim, bu gönderi sizinle okunacaklar listemi paylaşacağım için beni gerçekten kitap okumaya zorlayacak. bu sene hedefim çok yüksek değil, sadece 13 kitap ancak geçen seneden çoook daha fazla 🫣

— circe by madeline miller

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— the picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde

— 1984 by george orwell

— romeo and juliet by william shakespeare

— the perks of being a wallflower by stephen chbosky

— a little life by hanya yanagihara

— I want to die but I want to eat tteokbokki by baek se-hee

— normal people by sally rooney

— ethics by baruch spinoza

+ tbd