Songs
PART 2: OF AFFECTS - 5. Qui rei qua semel delectatus est...
by Michael Zev Gordon From Baruch - Ten Propositions of Baruch Spinoza (2020)
Text & Translation
PART 2: OF AFFECTS - 5. Qui rei qua semel delectatus est...
Latin source:
Baruch (Benedict) Spinoza
circumstantiis ac cum primo ipsa delectatus est.
He who recollects a thing with which he has once been delighted,
English translation ©
Anon.
desires to possess it with every condition which existed when he was first delighted with it.
PART 2: OF AFFECTS - 5. Qui rei qua semel delectatus est...
Latin source:
Baruch (Benedict) Spinoza
He who recollects a thing with which he has once been delighted,
English source:
Anon.
Qui rei qua semel delectatus est, recordatur, cupit eadem cum iisdem potiri
He who recollects a thing with which he has once been delighted,
circumstantiis ac cum primo ipsa delectatus est.
desires to possess it with every condition which existed when he was first delighted with it.
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…