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Baruch Spinoza’s ”Ethics” (Part 2/5)

Theory & Philosophy

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The Power of Reason

For 44 reason perceives things as necessary, not as contingent. And this signals to us that we have this capacity to discern true ideas from false ones. Number 46, each idea involves God's eternal and infinite essence. And so it's always adequate and perfect. The mind has the capacity to acknowledge its place along this trajectory of God's total infinite mind, infinite thinking attribute.

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