Benedict de Spinoza · Philosophy
The Ethics ends in joy: the highest knowledge sees each thing under the aspect of eternity, as following from God’s nature, and this knowledge is itself a love of God. In this intellectual love of God Spinoza finds blessedness, the eternity of the mind, and salvation.
You learned that Spinoza’s highest knowledge (the ‘third kind’) sees things sub specie aeternitatis , as following from God’s nature, and that this understanding is itself an ‘intellectual love of God’ in which the mind finds blessedness and a kind of eternity. Explain this culminat…
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