For Spinoza, obviously, the human mind, as well as the human body, are individuals (actually, they are the same individual). However, this individuality of the human mind would be threatened if the human mind were made up of ideas whose contents were relatively disparate, if these ideas were not all focused around a particular unified thing, such as the human body.


Spinoza (2008) - Three: The Human Mind

Michael Della Rocca Quotes

For Spinoza, obviously, the human mind, as well as the human body, are individuals (actually, they are the same individual). However, this...

For Spinoza, obviously, the human mind, as well as the human body, are individuals (actually, they are the same individual). However, this...

For Spinoza, obviously, the human mind, as well as the human body, are individuals (actually, they are the same individual). However, this...

For Spinoza, obviously, the human mind, as well as the human body, are individuals (actually, they are the same individual). However, this...