Mind and Body in Spinoza's "Ethics"

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2nd and 3rd Part II on Spinoza's ethics Part II: Spinoza's idea and epistemology Neven Knezevic Simon Fraser University nevenk@sfu.ca 7 summaries on Spinoza In the second half of the lecture, Spinoza's thought description and ethics of ethics and We will cover the second half of the survey. Like the previous lectures, we conduct a detailed investigation on a few propositions of the Code of Ethics and briefly introduce the main contents of this section. I will explain the relationship between Spinoza 's explanation of spiritualism and its rationalism, the foundation of his philosophy, his explanation of body movements, and how this approach is based on the understanding of the mind for the body. A description of Spinoza 's truth and error and sufficient and inappropriate thinking; three kinds of Spinoza knowledge; and his basic body of psycho - psychology related to part 3

Lecture on Part II and Part 3 of Spinoza's ethics: Part 2: Spinoza's idea and epistemology

Spinoza's Code of Ethics is divided into five parts. The first two include metaphysics and discuss physical and mental relationships separately with God separately. In the first part, Spinoza regards God as infinite and unique material for all reality. Please note that the philosophical term "substance" used here refers to the whole that we can not directly experience. Some of Spinoza's contemporaries and some contemporary classmates believe that there are several substances. The most famous is that RenéDescartes (1596-1650) has two kinds of problems, thoughts and problems, each thinking it has its own idea and extension. He further insists that everyone is a kind of interaction combination between the two substances. In contrast, Spinoza is an infinite and comprehensive substance, not only because it is infinite, inclusive, but also creative, I think that there is only one substance equivalent to God.

For Spinoza, body and mind are the same substance. Therefore, in an ontology, thinking and body are the same thing, the same reality or entity. I can not separate my mind and body, and vice versa. "Because the body is the object of the soul, the mind is tied to the body," he said (Ethics 2, 21). However, this does not mean that one party determines the other party or affects the other party. They are different attributes of basic reality. Because they are essentially related, not cause and effect, we can not say that one person decides another person. Spinoza said: "The body can not decide thought thinking, and it can not decide that the body exercises or rests" (Ethics 3, 2). This is illogical, even if it is said that one person decides another person because everyone is acting simultaneously with the other person.