Spinoza, Ethics, Part V

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Spinoza, Ethics, Part V is the concluding section of Spinoza’s philosophical masterpiece, focusing on the power of the intellect, the nature of blessedness, and the mind’s eternal aspect through the intellectual love of God.

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instanceOf part of a philosophical treatise
philosophical text section
aimsAt showing how the intellect can overcome the bondage of the passions
showing how the mind can achieve blessedness through understanding
associatedConcept adequate and inadequate ideas
conatus
sub specie aeternitatis
author Baruch Spinoza
claims blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself
love toward God cannot be turned into hatred
the free person thinks of nothing less than of death
the free person’s wisdom is a meditation on life
the human mind is eternal in a certain respect
the intellectual love of God is eternal
the mind can form adequate ideas that diminish the power of the passions
the more the mind understands things by the second and third kinds of knowledge, the less it suffers from passive affects
contains axioms
corollaries
definitions
demonstrations
propositions
scholia
developsConcept freedom as understanding necessity
intellectual love of God (amor Dei intellectualis)
mind’s eternity sub specie aeternitatis
third kind of knowledge
focusesOn active affects
adequate ideas
intellectual cognition of God
passive affects
historicalPeriod Early Modern philosophy
languageOfOriginal Latin
mainTheme human freedom
intellectual love of God
mind’s eternity
nature of blessedness
overcoming the bondage of the passions
power of the intellect
partOf Ethics (Spinoza)
philosophicalDiscipline ethics
metaphysics
philosophy of mind
philosophicalTradition rationalism
positionInWork fifth part
final part
reliesOn doctrines of God and nature from Ethics Part I
doctrines of human bondage from Ethics Part IV
doctrines of the affects from Ethics Part III
doctrines of the human mind from Ethics Part II
title Of the Power of the Intellect, or of Human Liberty
workStructure geometrical order

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Spinoza, Ethics, Part I relatedWork Spinoza, Ethics, Part V
Spinoza, Ethics, Part IV precedes Spinoza, Ethics, Part V