Single Idea 4309

[catalogued under 20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 2. Willed Action / a. Will to Act]

Full Idea

Spinoza argues that in reality the will and the intellect are 'one and the same'.

Gist of Idea

Spinoza argues that in reality the will and the intellect are 'one and the same'

Source

report of Baruch de Spinoza (The Ethics [1675]) by John Cottingham - The Rationalists p.159

Book Reference

Cottingham,John: 'The Rationalists' [OUP 1988], p.159


A Reaction

The 'will' is certainly a dubious concept, though it seems involved with desire and actual. In a sense, I suppose, all pursuits of reason are acts of will.