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Baruch Spinoza’s ”Ethics” (Part 2/5)

Theory & Philosophy

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The Problem With Individualism

We see things through our own experience in the world, which is a problem. Part of our goal is to acknowledge our common experience and then move away from this hyper individualism," he says. But that's just what he's saying here, is that we're going to be limited in understanding others just because we will understand them through the prism of our own experience. The mind perceives things, has the capacity to perceive these modifications, but it doesn't necessarily know what the essence is,. why these modifications exist the way they do and so on.

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