Songs
PART 2: OF AFFECTS - 3. Mens nostra quaedam agit...
by Michael Zev Gordon From Baruch - Ten Propositions of Baruch Spinoza (2020)
Text & Translation
PART 2: OF AFFECTS - 3. Mens nostra quaedam agit...
Latin source:
Baruch (Benedict) Spinoza
adaequatas habet ideas eatenus quaedam necessario agit et quatenus ideas
habet inadaequatas eatenus necessario quaedam patitur.
Our mind acts at times and at times suffers: in so far as it has
English translation ©
Anon.
adequate ideas, it necessarily acts; and in so far as it has
inadequate ideas it necessarily suffers.
PART 2: OF AFFECTS - 3. Mens nostra quaedam agit...
Latin source:
Baruch (Benedict) Spinoza
Our mind acts at times and at times suffers: in so far as it has
English source:
Anon.
Mens nostra quaedam agit, quaedam vero patitur nempe quatenus
Our mind acts at times and at times suffers: in so far as it has
adaequatas habet ideas eatenus quaedam necessario agit et quatenus ideas
adequate ideas, it necessarily acts; and in so far as it has
habet inadaequatas eatenus necessario quaedam patitur.
inadequate ideas it necessarily suffers.
Composer
Michael Zev Gordon
Born in London, Michael Zev Gordon is a composer of richly expressive and colourful music in which the tonal and atonal, the old and new, happily rub shoulders. Memory, time and a search for the serene are recurring themes. Gordon has worked with…
Poet
Baruch (Benedict) Spinoza
Baruch Spinoza was a Dutch philosopher of Portuguese Sephardi origin. One of the early thinkers of the Enlightenment and modern biblical criticism, including modern conceptions of the self and the universe, he came to be considered one of the great…