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| 1. | Dictionary definitions are edited entries {
JBY emendations } from WP Random-House "Webster's Electronic Dictionary" (RH) or Oxford University Press "Concise Electronic Dictionary" (OUP) [ Etymology from RH or OUP
] Ethics: Part III: Def. of the Emotions XX Explanation:178 "But my purpose
is to explain, not the meaning of
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Spinoza's Religion
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2. |
Fully CAPITALIZED words do not necessarily have their everyday meaning; they are precisely defined terms, much like letting x=y (where y is the cause by hypothesis). If I fatally deviate from these precise definitions, the logical structure collapses (D:2.12), Please call me to account at josephb@yesselman.com. This capitalization is a JBY convention; not Spinoza's. A degree sign (°) indicates that the term constantly varies in degree when it is a mode, but not when it is an attribute. Calculus:Fig.3, Calculus:4.4. The dictionary definitions do not stress such variations. Note 1, Calculus:Fig.1(a), Calculus:Fig.1(b), E1:XIII:54, E1:XV(40):58 °P symbolizes the
variation in degree of Perpetuation |
° FAITH faith D:1.26b D:2.10 Calculus:Fig.1 D:1.37 I:1.3b I:1.4b D:1.30 DefEmo Includes Quibble D:1.14 James |
| 3. | Symbols: { -- } Indicates a JBY comment or statement. [ -- ] Indicates a Curley's translation or comment. ] -- [ Indicates a Shirley's translation or comment. <--> Indicates a Parkinson's translation or comment. >--< Indicates a De Dijn's translation or comment. LINKS. |
Bk.XIB:22377. |
| 4. | Bibliography and Citation Abbreviations: Online Book-Ordering for Listed Books: Click Book or ISBN No. for an Amazon.com order form. Where available, click on book title to sample book. Booksellers: Abebooks, Albris. See this Interesting Canadian library source. I receive commissions on orders placed with Amazon. All commissions received are turned over to: North American Spinoza Society. Executive Secretary: Steven Barbone Conjecture: It
will be a happy day when all books are
On
the Improvement of the Understanding
(TEI): The Books I & II page numbers (when given)
for citations, afford the Book
II – Benedict de Spinoza A
Theologico-Political A Theologico-Political
Treatise (TTP) Part #: A
Political Treatise (TP) Part #: Elwes'
Introduction:[Para. # ]:Book II Page #
Book III: Page #, Footnote
or Endnote # This book is a valuable commentary on Spinoza's "Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect" ( Book I ). It has the Gebhardt Latin text and Curley's English translation on facing pages. It describes in great detail Spinoza's Method
for acquiring Wisdom. |
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| 4. Cont. |
Book
IV (7 Volumes) – The
Pentateuch; translated & explained (1873) by Rabbi Samsom Raphael Hirsch (1808-1888). Translated and Published by Isaac Levy. 237 Stoke Newington Church St. London N.16, England, Copyright 1959. Judaica Press, Brooklyn, NY. (718) 972-6000; ISBN 0910818126. Hirsch's non-conventional
translations and profound Hebrew
etymologically-based commentary
trigger insights. His rationalistic Hirsch Pentateuch: Biblical Book, Chapter: Verse |
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| 4. Cont. |
Book V ( 2 Volumes) – The
Psalms translated & commentary (1882) by Rabbi Samsom Raphael Hirsch. Translated into English by Gertrude Hirschler. Copyright 1960 by Philipp Feldheim, Inc., New York, NY. Eichler's Book Store, Brooklyn, NY, (718)258-7643. See Book IV comments above. Volume 1 - Psalms 1 to 72. |
Psalm 1:1:1 |
| 4. Cont. |
Book
VI – H.W.F.
Gesenius's Hebrew-Chaldee Lexicon
to the {Hebrew Bible}; Baker
Books, 1997; ISDN: 0801037360. Numerically Coded to Strong's Exhaustive Concordance. Gesenius:Page Number Ges:19 The coding system allows the Bible student without a knowledge of Hebrew to use this classic work to find the precise meaning and connotations of the Hebrew or Aramaic word behind the English word being studied. Being a lexicon, its entries are more exhaustive than are Strong's. Study roots and related words of the 'word'–example the word 'pity' . |
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| 4. Cont. |
Book
VII – "Baruch Spinoza; The
Ethics: Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect and Selected Letters"; Translated by Samuel Shirley; Edited, with Introductions, by Seymour Feldman; Hackett Publishing Company,1992; ISBN: 0872201309. Get the hardcover; my paperback fell apart. Especially see Deus, Cause, Idea. Book VII: Page #, Footnote
or Endnote # |
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| 4. Cont. |
Book
VIII (Volume 1) – The
Collected Works of Spinoza; Edited and Translated by Edwin Curley; 1985; Princeton University Press; (609)883-1759; ISBN: 0691072221. Available in a CD-ROM from IntLex's Past Master Series; The Continental Rationalists, Spinoza, Descartes, & Leibniz. I have added Curley's TEI Paragraph Numbers (which he took from Bruder; Book VIII, Page 6) to the Elwes translation. This I hope, will facilitate translation comparisons. If this is the same Bruder, strange Elwes did not use the Paragraph Numbers, unless Elwes' copy had no such numbers. Book VIII: Page #, Footnote
or Endnote #
Includes Dictionaries of Hebrew and Greek words (Strong
Numbers). Strong: Hebrew or Greek Word #
Book X: Page #, Footnote
or Endnote #
Book XI: Page #, Footnote
or Endnote #
Book XIA: Page #, Endnote
#
Book XIB: Page #, Endnote
#
Book XII: Page #, Footnote
or Endnote # |
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| 4. Cont. |
Book
XIII – Spinoza:
The Letters; Translated
by Samuel Shirley; Introduction and Notes by Steven
Barbone, Lee Rice, and Jacob Adler. Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. Copyright 1995; ISBN: 0872202755. I recommend reading the Letters in Book XIII because of its Introduction and informative footnotes. Letter
# : Book XIII Page # , Footnote
or Endnote #
Book
XIV:Volume Number:Page #, Footnote
or Endnote # Book XV: Page #, Footnote
or Endnote #
Book XVI: Page #
Book XVII: Page #
Gebhardt's
Spinoza Opera (4 vols. 1925).
Book XIX: Page #, Endnote
# (Deleuse) or letter (Joughin).
Book XX: Page #, Endnote
#. See Nadler's entry in "Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy".
Book XXI: Page #, Endnote
#. Change Miller's definition of
God (Pg. 222) from
the traditional Judaic-Christian-Islam transcendent
God to Spinoza's immanent G-D and
the book could be titled "Finding Spinoza's G-D"
or even "Finding Einstein's
G-D", and possibly "Finding
Darwin's G-D".
The book is out-of-print; but may be obtained used here, where I got my copy. Search for Author "Runes".
Book XXVI: Page #, Endnote
#.
Book XXVII: Page #, Endnote
#.
Book XXVIII: Page #, Endnote
#.
LeDoux96:281—Is Consciousness Computable? Book XXIX: Page #, Endnote
#.
Book XXX: Page #, Endnote
#.
Book XXXI: Page #, Endnote
#. For online-ordering of all listed books see Note 4. |
LT:L34(21):151 |
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Use to test any Religion's
consistency and logic. Tape 2 - The
Teaching Company's Biology
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| 7. | Suggestion: Do
not read this Glossary as you would a novel but rather select a head-word or Topic and then follow all its links in turn wherever they may lead. You will then be putting hypertexting to its fullest and best advantage—the fuller discussion of a thread. If you do not stick to one thread at a time, this Web Site will be very convoluted, confusing, and an annoying maze. If you prefer to read linearly, read these plain vanilla text versions, abridged versions, e-book versions, or best, study the printed book—book page numbers are given for most scanned books. For further Topics to follow see
Terry
Neff 's "Topic
Index". |
Durant's
Story
EL:[3]:vi |
| 8. | The secret to understanding
Spinoza is to POSIT (as a working
hypothesis) "1D6
= ONE"
— Synthesized. The Foundation Rock. TEI:[104]:38, JBYnote1. Spinoza's MOTIVE for everything he says, is to lay the groundwork for teaching the "Organic interdependence of Parts." Remember this and all his puzzling sayings, for example G-D, become more, if not completely, understandable. Spinozistic insights in a nutshell: 1. °Perpetuation and Conatus (ultimately PcM) 2. °JOY. 3. °LOVE. 4. Self-interest and Enlightenment. 5. Religion and °Peace-of-Mind. 6. Organic Interdependence. 7. Cash (effective) Value. If I have not gotten these across, I have failed to explain Spinoza or to achieve my Purpose. |
TEI:[16]:7 TEI:[38]:14 TEI:[49:3]:17 TEI:[105]:38 I:1.5a D:1.7 Meditate on. |
Abstractions: G-D, Deus, Being, ONE, J---vah, Allah, Buddha, Krishna, Jesus, Mary, Hampshire202, Language, Fences, Foundation Rock.
A picture is worth a thousand words (abstractions).
RH—n. 1. an abstract or general idea
or term. 2. the act of considering something in terms of general qualities
or characteristics, apart from concrete realities,
specific objects, or actual instances. 6. the quality of being abstract.
[1540-50; < LL]
RH—1. thought of apart from concrete realities, specific objects, or actual instances: an abstract idea. 2. expressing a quality or characteristic apart from any specific object or instance: an abstract word like justice. 3. theoretical; not applied or practical. 4. difficult to understand; abstruse. 9. something that concentrates in itself the essential qualities of anything more extensive or more general.
[1400-50; late ME: withdrawn from worldly interests < ML abstractus, L: ptp. of abstrahere to drag away, divert = abs- ABS - + trahere to draw, pull; cf. TRACT 1]
ACCELERATION
, I:Table 1, I:Table
3, I:1.7, I:1.11,
D:1.23d.
RH— a change in velocity,
the time rate of change of velocity
with respect to magnitude or direction; the
derivative of velocity
with respect to
time.
OUP— the rate of
change of velocity measured in terms of a
unit of time.
I use °ACCELERATION
to serve as an analogy for °FAITH.
I:Table
1. Negative values are deceleration
and "lack of faith."
Bk.XIV:1:xxiii.
Active,
E3:I:130,
Passive, E1:XXIX(8):68,
E3:I(8):13, E3:III:135,
E3:XI(2):138,
E3:GN(2)N,
E4:XXIII:204, E4:XXVIII(2):205,
E4:Ap.II:236, E5:IV(7):249,
E5:XLII(1):270, EL:[54]:xxvi.
E3:Def.II:129—
Bk.XIV:2:1931.
]are active
[
I say that we act when anything takes
place, either within
Active
emotion
us
or externally to us, whereof we are
the adequate
cause; that
is (by the foregoing definition) when through
Hanpshire:135—affectus
our
nature something takes place within us or externally
to us, which can through our
nature alone be clearly and
distinctly understood
{PcM}.
{ Example— Your TV is broken
Mark
Twain
and you know how
to fix it; and do or do not fix it
based on other
priorities. E3:GN:2n.
{Active—understanding
and having Peace of Mind;
Passive—not
understanding with loss of PcM.}
Spinoza's
Religion
E1:XXIX(8):68—
"I wish here
to explain, what we should understand
by
Nature viewed
as active (natura Naturans {G-D})
{Explained
E1:
XXIX(9)},
and nature viewed as passive (natura naturata
{G-d})."
{ Explained
E1:XXIX(10):69 }
< Endnote
39, Bk.XV:267.
>
Bk.III:202.
E3:Def.III:130—Passion.
]affectus[
]affections [
"By emotions
I mean the modifications of the body, whereby
Bk.XIV:2:1931.
the active
power of said body is
increased or diminished,
aided or constrained,
and also the ideas of such
modifica-
tions."
N.B. If we
can be the adequate cause
of any of these
E3:GN:2n.
modifications, I
then call the emotion an activity, otherwise
I call it a passion, or state
wherein the mind is passive.
{Active—understanding
and having Peace of Mind;
Passive—not
understanding with loss of PcM.}
Spinoza's
Religion
Neff
Adequate
- Inadequate, Idea,
TEI:[29]:11, TEI:[35]:13,
TEI:[73]:27,
E2:XXXIV:108, E3:I:130, E5:XVII(1):255,EL:[50]:xxvi, EL:[54]:xxvi, EL:[60]:xxix,
TTP2:Note 8, TEI:L64(60):395, Common Notions.
E3:Def.I:129—adequate
cause, efficient cause—Bk.XIX:22112.
"Def. I. By an adequate
cause, I mean a cause through
which its effect
can be clearly
and distinctly perceived.
Descartes—Bombardi
By an inadequate
or partial cause, I mean a cause
through which, by
itself, its effect cannot be understood."
Hampshire:135—affectus
Bk.III:79—TEI:L64(60):395,
TEI:[35], [73]:13;
Bk.XIX:22112.
E2:Def.IV:82—adequate
Idea, clearly
and distinctly
{Real},
common notion—
{Bk.XIV:2:101—TEI:L64(60):395.
Examples: POSIT
—organic.}
<Bk.XV:289221on
TEI[62]—Parkinson:27383,
84 on
E2:XXVIII:105>
]G:Shirley:2513—ideate,
E2:XLVIII(8)
& XLIX:120, E1:XXX:(1):69
[
"Def. IV. By
an adequate Idea, I
mean an idea which,
in so far as it is considered
in itself, without relation to the
object,
has all the properties or intrinsic marks ]character-
istics[
of a true idea." {
An axiomatic
idea such as the hypothesis
of G-D, E4:Ap.II:236,
E3:GN(2)n,
Confused idea,
Prejudice
, NeffEL:L04(04):282,
NeffEL:42(37):360.}
How
the Rationalists Construe "Clear and Distinct Ideas".
Descartes—Bombardi
From Dijn's Bk.III:53—Parkinson's Book XV:27484
"Yet this
kind of knowing is not really adequate (a Spinozistic
Reason—knowing
term indicating complete
knowledge of a thing)
because it
by it's properties.
does not lead
to a real insight into the essence
of things".
Intuition—knowing
{Complete knowledge
of a thing is knowing, by intuition,
its immanent cause;
by it's essence.
i.e. it's essence
not it's properties. E3:Def.III:130,
E3:GN(2):185, E3:GN2n.}
{CashValue
- Studying Spinoza's definitions
(hypotheses)
increases "adequate
knowledge" and
thus °PcM.}
WikipediA,
Introduction. Ridley's
Altruism.
Altruism,
D:1.35,
Charity,
Duty, ONE,
Pity, D:1.8, D:1.33b,
D:1.34a, D:1.35a,
Sign Names,
E3:LIX(6):172,
E2:Endnote 3, HirPent:Gn
43:14, Mark
Twain—Altruism
does not Exist,
Egoism,
Ayn Rand, Dawkin's:546,
Ridley:3,
Altruism
never exists, except it be an act of illness. When
you say
"I love
you", it is (see D:1.33c) a
euphemism for "I need you, and
An unfaced
truth.
the more
or less I
need you the more or less
will I love you."
Dawkins2:Genes
That is why there are marriages;
that is why there are divorces.
Substitute the word 'need'
for 'love' and you will understand 'love'
in its full dimensions. There
is no such thing as altruism, except it
Mark Twain
be an act of illness.
If the lung did not take its "take"; it would soon
die, leading to the death of
the whole organism. You would
not rely
organic
on a sick lung that does not use any
of the blood it passes through
for its own use.
The Law of Organisms requires interdependence.
derogatory
Uzgalis - Hobbes
I hasten to
add that this
is not pejorative;
but the Law
of Organisms. Ridley's
Altruism
Example: Even MotherTeresa
fulfills her inner need
first and
R. Hillel
then those she aids,
second. That does not make her work
any
less meritorious;
the poor woman in Mark
Twain's story was aided.
Mark Twain
Self-interest—"you
have to give to
get; you have to get to give"
Ayn
Rand
is the nature
of organic
interdependence. Altruism
implies
that
a person is not always
part of G-D
and has, at that time, no duties
Extinction
or obligations.
I have read "In all of history, no one ever washed
a rented car," and Dawkin's:546
I have added, except when the dirty
car reflected on him.
E4:L:221—
Pity, in a man
who lives under the guidance of reason,
is in itself bad and useless. {Pity
as defined herein.}
RH— the principle or practice of unselfish
concern for the welfare
of others ( opposed to egoism
). { I
believe it is, by and large,
opposed to rationalism.
}
[1850-55; others]
Neff
, Bk.XIV:1:xiii, xv.
Attribute,
I:1.4b, I:1.5b, Mode,
Analogy,G–D,
TTP3:XIII(16):176,
Calculus:5:1,
E1:XVI:59,EL:[42,
43]:xxiii., Neff
EL:L04(04):282,
Bk.XIX:1612.
Ethics:Part I:Def. IV:45— Bk.XIV:1:141, 224.
By attribute,
I mean that which the intellect perceives as
Durant:637
constituting the essence
of substance.