[65] _New Atlantis_, Cambridge University Press, 1900, p. 22.
[66] _Ibid._, p. 24.
[67] Pp. 44, 45.
[68] P. 43.
[69] P. 34.
[70] J. M. Robertson, preface to _Philosophical Works_.
[71] Robert Adamson, article “Bacon,” _Encyclopædia Britannica_.
[72] Cf. preface to _Memoirs of a Revolutionist_.
[73] _Novum Organum_, i, 81.
[74] _Advancement of Learning_, p. 207.
[75] _Ibid._, p. 131.
[76] _Advancement of Learning._, bk. i.
[77] Professor Woodbridge, class-lectures.
[78] Turgenev, in _Fathers and Children_.
[79] This division into saints and sinners must be taken with
reservations, of course. In many respects Descartes belongs to the
second group, and in some respects James and Comte belong to the first.
But the dichotomy clarifies, if only by exaggeration.
[80] L. Ward, _Pure Sociology_, p. 16.
[81] Buckle, _History of Civilization_, i, 138.
[82] Special acknowledgment for some of the material of this chapter
is due to R. A. Duff, _Spinoza’s Political and Ethical Philosophy_,
Glasgow, 1903.
[83] _Tractatus Theologico-politicus_, ch. 17.
[84] _Tractatus Theologico-politicus_, ch. 1.
[85] _Will to Power_, vol. i, § 95.
[86] Cf. Duff, _op. cit._, pref.: “It can be shown that Spinoza had no
interest in metaphysics for its own sake, while he was passionately
interested in moral and political problems. He was a metaphysician at
all only in the sense that he was resolute in thinking out the ideas,
principles, and categories which are interwoven with all our practical
endeavor, and the proper understanding of which is the condition of
human welfare.”
[87] _Ethics_, bk. iv, prop. 7.
[88] _Tractatus Theologico-Politicus_, v, 2.
[89] _Ibid._, ch. 16.
[90] _Ethics_, bk. iv, prop. 58, schol.
[91] _Tractatus Theologico-politicus_, i, 5.
[92] _Ethics_, bk. i, appendix.
[93] _Ibid._, bk. iv, prop. 18, schol.
[94] _Ethics_, bk. iv, prop. 3.
[95] _Ibid._, cor.
[96] _De Intellectus Emendatione._
[97] _Ethics_, bk. iv, appendix, § 9.
[98] _Tractatus Theologico-politicus_, ch. 10.
[99] _Ibid._, ch. 19.
[100] _Ibid._, ch. 8.
[101] _Tractatus Theologico-politicus_, ch. 16.
[102] _Ethics_, bk. iv, prop. 18, schol.
[103] _Ibid._
[104] _Ibid._, bk. iv, prop. 24.
[105] Bk. iv, def. 8.
[106] _Tractatus Theologico-politicus_, ch. 6, § 1.
[107] _Ethics_, bk. iv, prop. 35, schol.
[108] _Tractatus Theologico-politicus_, ch. 5, § 2.
[109] _Ibid._, ch. 16.
[110] _Ethics_, bk. iv, prop. 37, schol. 2.
[111] Contrast Plato: the state (_i.e._, the governing classes) is to
the lower classes as reason is to passion.
[112] _Tractatus Theologico-politicus_, ch. 3, § 14.
[113] _Ethics_, bk. iv, prop. 40.
[114] Ch. 20.
[115] _Tractatus Theologico-politicus_, ch. 6, § 4.
[116] _Tractatus Theologico-politicus_, ch. 6, § 4, ch. 7, § 29.
[117] _Ethics_, bk. iv, prop. 35, cor. 1.
[118] _Ibid._, cor. 2.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
Reviews
Reviews
No reviews yet
Be the first to share your thoughts on this work.
Elsewhere in the archive
Join the Discussion
Join the discussion
Sign in to leave a comment or review.
Sign InorCreate an account