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18 | Spinoza: Necessity, Ethics, Joy

What's Left of Philosophy

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Why Reason Is Not Sufficient to Overcome Sad Affects Cause

Spinoza says that reason on its own is not enough to overcome sad affects cause. But when we understand things, there's a joy involved in understandingray. The greater the degree to which we understand why they had to do this, then it may actually have been the case that your nature and theirs were incompatible. Then you no longer hate them. Race and overy asilate thet.

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