Spinoza on<i>Causa Sui</i>

Melamed, Yitzhak Y.

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“…SeeSchechtman (2014). For more on God as a causa sui, seeMelamed (2021).23 In the prefatory remark to Part II, Spinoza says his focus will be on what will lead us "to the cognition of the human mind and its highest blessedness." Given this, I think we can take the "certain attributes" in the description of E2p40s2 to be the attributes available to human minds: namely, extension and thought.24 That cognition of the third kind is especially difficult is suggested by remarks Spinoza makes in Part V, e.g., "if the way I have shown to lead to [intellectual love of God or blessedness, freedom, a true contentment of mind [vera animi acquiescentia] now seems very hard, still, it can be found.…”

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Part V of Spinoza's Ethics: Intuitive knowledge, contentment of mind, and intellectual love of God

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2022

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In this article, I sketch a way of understanding three important doctrines from Spinoza's Ethics: intuitive knowledge (scientia intuitiva), contentment of mind (acquiescentia mentis), and intellectual love of God (amor Dei intellectualis). Along the way, I suggest how these doctrines could build on more familiar doctrines, including monism, necessitarianism, the parallelism of ideas and bodies, and the “ideas of ideas.”

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