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Spinoza

In Our Time: Philosophy

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The Passions Are a Sign of Ignorance

Sara hutton says spinoza's view of the world is more stoical. He thinks all things have this conatus, or drive, including us because we're modifications of the whole. But yes, it's true, he thought we could never escape from the passions a but my sense of that is he felt th was a bit of a pity. Goll so there is this restlessness built into everything, short of death sara hutton.

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