[PDF] The Significance Of Spinozas Treatise On The Improvement Of The Understanding Tractatus De Intellectus Emendatione eBook

Author : Benedictus de Spinoza
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 58 pages
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"On the Improvement of the Understanding" is a work by the seventeenth-century philosopher Baruch Spinoza, published posthumously in 1677. In the work, the author attempts to formulate a philosophical method that would allow the mind to form the clear and distinct ideas necessary for its developent.

Author : Baruch Spinoza
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Page : 90 pages
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Release : 2020-03-25
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The Tractatus was first published in 1677, the year of Spinoza's death, by some of his closest friends, along with other works including the Ethica and the Tractatus Politicus. It is an attempt to formulate a philosophical method that would allow the mind to form clear and distinct ideas that are necessary for its perfection. It contains, in addition, reflection upon the various kinds of knowledge, an extended treatment of definition, and a lengthy analysis of the nature and causes of doubt. He discusses, among other topics, perception, experience, intelligence, memory, and forgetting.

Author : Benedict de Spinoza
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 58 pages
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After experience had taught me that all the usual surroundings of social life are vain and futile; seeing that none of the objects of my fears contained in themselves anything either good or bad, except in so far as the mind is affected by them, I finally resolved to inquire whether there might be some real good having power to communicate itself, which would affect the mind singly, to the exclusion of all else: whether, in fact, there might be anything of which the discovery and attainment would enable me to enjoy continuous, supreme, and unending happiness. I say "I finally resolved," for at first sight it seemed unwise willingly to lose hold on what was sure for the sake of something then uncertain. I could see the benefits which are acquired through fame and riches, and that I should be obliged to abandon the quest of such objects, if I seriously devoted myself to the search for something different and new. I perceived that if true happiness chanced to be placed in the former I should necessarily miss it; while if, on the other hand, it were not so placed, and I gave them my whole attention, I should equally fail. - Taken from "On the Improvement of the Understanding: Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect" written by Benedict de Spinoza

Author : Benedictus De 1632-1677 Spinoza
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 37,2 MB
Release : 2016-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781373238269

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Author : Benedict de Spinoza
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Page : 42 pages
File Size : 50,24 MB
Release : 2016-09-02
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ISBN : 9781537348520

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Tractatus de Intellectus Emendatione, or On The Improvement Of The Understanding, is a seventeenth-century unfinished work of philosophy by the 17th century philosopher Baruch Spinoza. The Tractatus was first published in 1677, the year of Spinoza's death, by some of his closest friends, along with other works including the Ethica and the Tractatus Politicus. The Tractatus is an attempt to formulate a philosophical method that would allow the mind to form the clear and distinct ideas that are necessary for its perfection. It contains, in addition, reflection upon the various kinds of knowledge, an extended treatment of definition, and a lengthy analysis of the nature and causes of doubt.

Author : Harold Henry Joachim
Publisher : Oxford, The Clarendon P
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,31 MB
Release : 1940
Category : Intellect
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“THE LATE PROFESSOR JOACHIM had been working on this study of Spinoza’s essay for many years, and though at his death he had not quite completed it, it has been possible to publish it in an almost final form. After an introduction which discusses the text and the circumstances of its composition, the work goes on to study the leading philosophical ideas in Spinoza’s essay. It is concerned principally with Spinoza’s teaching in regard to knowledge and its method; in regard to truth, supposal, doubt and error; and in regard to the nature, powers, and limitations of the knowing mind.”- Publisher