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PART 3: OF MIND - 6. Affectus qui passio est...

by Michael Zev Gordon From Baruch - Ten Propositions of Baruch Spinoza (2020)

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PART 3: OF MIND - 6. Affectus qui passio est...
Latin source: Baruch (Benedict) Spinoza

Affectus qui passio est, desinit esse passio simulatque ejus claram et distinctam formamus ideam

An emotion which is a passion ceases to be a passion as soon as we form a clear and distinct idea of it.
English translation © Anon.

An emotion which is a passion ceases to be a passion as soon as we form a clear and distinct idea of it.

PART 3: OF MIND - 6. Affectus qui passio est...
Latin source: Baruch (Benedict) Spinoza

An emotion which is a passion ceases to be a passion as soon as we form a clear and distinct idea of it.
English source: Anon.

Affectus qui passio est, desinit esse passio simulatque ejus claram et distinctam formamus ideam
An emotion which is a passion ceases to be a passion as soon as we form a clear and distinct idea of 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…

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