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Translator: R. H. M. Elwes
Benedict de Spinoza, THE ETHICS
Translated by R. H. M. Elwes
Part II: ON THE NATURE AND ORIGIN OF THE MIND
PREFACE I now pass on to explaining the results, which must necessarily follow from the essence of God, or of the eternal and infinite being; not, indeed, all of them , but only those which are able to lead us, as it were by the hand, to the knowledge of the human mind and its highest blessedness.
>>>>>Explanation--I say 'conception' rather than perception, because the word perception seems to imply that the mind is passive in respect to the object; whereas conception seems to express an activity of the mind.
>>>>>Explanation--I say 'intrinsic,' in order to exclude that mark which is extrinsic, namely, the agreement between the idea and its object .
>>>>>Explanation--I say 'indefinite,' because it cannot be determined through the existence itself of the existing thing, or by its efficient cause, which necessarily gives the existence of the thing, but does not take it away.
N.B. The Postulates are given after the conclusion of Prop. xiii.
>>>>>Proof--Particular thoughts, or this and that thought, are modes which, in a certain conditioned manner, express the nature of God . God therefore possesses the attribute of which the concept is involved in all particular thoughts, which latter are conceived thereby. Thought, therefore, is one of the infinite attributes of God, which express God's eternal and infinite essence . In other words, God is a thinking thing. Q.E.D.
>>>>>Proof--The proof of this proposition is similar to that of the last.
>>>>>Proof--God can think an infinite number of things in infinite ways, or can form the idea of his essence, and of all things which necessarily follow therefrom. Now all that is in the power of God necessarily is . Therefore, such an idea as we are considering necessarily is, and in God alone. Q.E.D.
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