List: > On Oct 30, 2016, at 12:30 AM, Jerry Rhee <jerryr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Spinoza’s chief work, the “Ethics”, is an exposition of the idea of the > absolute, with a monistic theory of the correspondence between mind and > matter, and applications to the philosophy of living. It is an excessively > abstruse doctrine, much misunderstood, and too complicated for brief > exposition
see: http://www.pucsp.br/pragmatismo/dowloads/eip_15/15th_imp_shannon_dea_peirce-and_spinozas_pragmaticist_methaphysics.pdf for a very nice paper on CSP wrt Spinoza. One can amuse oneself by playing with the question: To what extend did Spinoza’s effort to express meta-physics in terms of Euclid’s geometrical mathematics, excite CSP to express his meta-physics in terms of continuous mathematics and graph theory (as a dualism between physical thought and chemical thought, or as a dualism between idealism and realism)? Cheers jerry from url cited above As well, Peirce was the uncredited author of the entry on Spinozism for the Century Dictionary (1891).8 Here it is in its entirety: Spinozism (spi-no’ zizm), n. [< Spinoza (see def.) + -ism.] The metaphysical doctrine of Baruch (afterward Benedict) de Spinoza (1632-1677), a Spanish Jew, born at Amsterdam. Spinoza’s chief work, the “Ethics,” is an exposition of the idea of the absolute, with a monistic theory of the correspondence between mind and matter, and applications to the philosophy of living. It is an excessively abstruse doctrine, much misunderstood, and too complicated for brief exposition. The style of the book, an imitation of Euclid’s “Elements,” is calculated to repel the mathematician and logician, and to carry the attention of the ordinary reader away from the real meaning, while conveying a completely false notion of the mode of thinking. Yet, while the form is pseudomathematical, the thought itself is truly mathematical. The main principle is, indeed, an anticipation in a generalized form of the modern geometrical conception of the absolute, especially as this appears in the hyperbolic geometry, where the point and plane manifolds have a correspondence similar to that between Spinoza’s worlds of extension and thought. Spinoza is described as a pantheist; he identifies God and Nature, but does not mean by Nature what is ordinarily meant. Some sayings of Spinoza are frequently quoted in literature. One of these is omnis determinatio est negatio, “all specification involves exclusion”; another is that matters must be considered sub specie æternitatis, “under their essential aspects.” Spinozist (spi-no’ zist), n. [< Spinoza + -ist.] A follower of Spinoza. Spinozistic (spi-no-zis’ tik), a. [< Spinozist + -ic.] Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Spinoza or his followers: as, the Spinozistic school; Spinozistic pantheism.9
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