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PART 4: OF THE THIRD KIND OF KNOWLEDGE - 9. Summus mentis conatus...

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

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PART 4: OF THE THIRD KIND OF KNOWLEDGE - 9. Summus mentis conatus...
Latin source: Baruch (Benedict) Spinoza

Summus mentis conatus summaque virtus est res intelligere tertio cognitionis genere.

The highest striving of the mind and its highest virtue is to understand things by the third kind of knowledge.
English translation © Anon.

The highest striving of the mind and its highest virtue is to understand things by the third kind of knowledge.

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…