On the Improvement of the Understanding by Benedict de Spinoza (sci fi books to read .txt) π
[8] (1) There are many examples of men who have suffered persecution even to death for the sake of their riches, and of men who in pursuit of wealth have exposed themselves to so many dangers, that they have paid away their life as a penalty for their folly. (2) Examples are no less numerous of men, who have endured the utmost wretchedness for the sake of gaining or preserving their reputation. (3) Lastly, are innumerable cases of men, who have hastened their death through over-indulgence in sensual pleasure.
[9] (1) All these evils seem to have arisen from the fact, that happiness or unhappiness is made wholly dependent on the
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are wont to determine duration by the aid of some measure
of motion which, again, takes place by aid of imagination,
we preserve no memory connected with pure intellect. [91e] The chief rule of this part is, as appears from the first
part, to review all the ideas coming to us through pure
intellect, so as to distinguish them from such as we imagine:
the distinction will be shown through the properties of each,
namely, of the imagination and of the understanding. [92f] Observe that it is thereby manifest that we cannot understand
anything of nature without at the same time increasing our
knowledge of the first cause, or God.
End of βOn the Improvement of the Understanding.β
Notes by Volunteer.
1. Used, in part, with kind permission from:
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2. The text is that of the translation of the Tractatus de Intellectus
Emendatione by R. H. M. Elwes, as printed by Dover Publications
(NY):1955), ISBN 0-486-20250-X. This text is βan unabridged and
unaltered republication of the Bohn Library edition originally
published by George Bell and Sons in 1883.β
3. Paragraph Numbers, shown thus [1], are from Edwin Curleyβs
translation in his βThe Collected Works of Spinozaβ, Volume 1, 1985,
Princeton University Press; ISBN 0-691-07222-1.
4. Sentence Numbers, shown thus (1), have been added by volunteer.
5. Spinozaβs endnotes are shown thus [a]. The letter is taken from
Curley, see Note 3.
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