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PART 3: OF MIND - 8. Deus expers est passionum nec ullo laetitiae aut tristitiae affectu afficitur.

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

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PART 3: OF MIND - 8. Deus expers est passionum nec ullo laetitiae aut tristitiae affectu afficitur.
Latin source: Baruch (Benedict) Spinoza

Deus expers est passionum nec ullo laetitiae aut tristitiae affectu afficitur.

God is free from passions, nor is He affected with any affect of joy or sorrow.
English translation © Anon.

God is free from passions, nor is He affected with any affect of joy or sorrow.

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…