[FRIAM] Baruch Spinoza

[Frank Wimberly]

Steve,

Spinoza has ancestors in common with Spanish (and New Mexican) people named
Espinoza or Espinosa.  Will Durant said he had the clearest knowledge of
God of any philosopher. I suppose that was knowledge of the third kind.

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On Sat, Jun 11, 2022, 5:53 AM Steve Smith <sasmyth at swcp.com> wrote:

> As long as I am scattergunning this list with the rock-salt of my random
> studies, I have to toss Spinoza over the transom as well.
>
> Being too lazy (manically preoccupied) to thread my way back through the
> existing discussions on duality on this list, I will simply ask if anyone
> here has already thrown down on Spinoza's take on duality here, or even
> better, is willing to now:
>
> From Spinoza's Ethics
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics_(Spinoza_book)#Part_II:_Of_the_Nature_&_Origin_of_the_Mind>:
>
>
> *Further, there is no difference between contemplating an idea and
> thinking that it is true, and there is no **freedom of the will
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_will>** at all. Sensory perception,
> which Spinoza calls "knowledge of the first kind", is entirely inaccurate,
> since it reflects how our own bodies work more than how things really are.
> We can also have a kind of accurate knowledge called "knowledge of the
> second kind", or "reason". This encompasses knowledge of the features
> common to all things, and includes principles of physics and geometry. We
> can also have "knowledge of the third kind", or "**intuitive knowledge
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intuition>**". This is a sort of knowledge
> that, somehow, relates particular things to the nature of God.*
>
> In Spinoza's taxonomy, it would seem that DaveW's "dark-matter/energy"
> attribution is what Spinoza calls "knowledge of the third kind".
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