Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Two letters on mind' and 'Spinoza's Ethics'

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5 ideas

1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 5. Later European Thought

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Only in the 1780s did it become acceptable to read Spinoza [Lord]

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 2. Powers as Basic

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Incorporeal substances are powers or forces [Descartes, by Pasnau]

15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 10. Conatus/Striving

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Hobbes and Spinoza use 'conatus' to denote all endeavour for advantage in nature [Lord]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 1. Virtue Theory / a. Nature of virtue

467	A virtue is a combination of intelligence, strength and luck [Ion]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 7. Later Matter Theories / c. Matter as extension

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Impenetrability only belongs to the essence of extension [Descartes]