Tuesday, February 2, 2021

Spinoza's Ethics: II.A2: Human Thought

Again, it is remarkable that this qualifies as an axiom. By building on Book I, Spinoza could have created a proposition that extended God through the attribute of thought to humans as modally expressing thought. But he did not. Spinoza is building the shortest road to "blessedness" and for this reason I believe that he wants to focus on what interests us the most: us.

Homo cogitat.

Translated as,

A human thinks.

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