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Baruch Spinoza’s ”Ethics” (Part 1/5)

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The Axiom of Causes and Effects

Every effect must have a cause, which already explained seems easy enough. We cannot fully understand something unless we understand the means by which it came into existence. If an essence can be conceived as not existing, then it does not involve existence. Everything has an essence because otherwise a thing would just be very sad and lonely in the universe. And so from this is implied that no human can exist without corresponding to the essence of humanity.

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