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Baruch Spinoza

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Baruch Spinoza.

"Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand."

Cast out by his own community at 23, he built one of the first systematic accounts of the emotions — feelings as things with causes you can trace.

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Enlightenment
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Specialties

relationships
anxiety
loneliness
faith

Helpful for

Boundaries
Emotional regulation
Identity & self-worth

Best for

Understanding a strong emotion
Being excluded or cast out

Traditions

Enlightenment
Humanism
Moral philosophy

Cited passages

Exactly what we draw on for Baruch

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Most writers on the emotions and on human conduct seem to be treating rather of matters outside nature than of natural phenomena following nature's general laws. I shall consider human actions and desires in exactly the same manner as though I were concerned with lines, planes, and solids.
Ethics, Part III: On the Emotions, Part III, Preface, trans. R. H. M. Elwes (1883)Original title: Ethica · enRights: public_domainRead Emotions have causes in full
No one has hitherto laid down the limits to the powers of the body; that is, no one has as yet been taught by experience what the body can accomplish solely by the laws of nature.
Ethics, Part III: On the Emotions, Part III, Prop. II, Note, trans. R. H. M. Elwes (1883)Original title: Ethica · enRights: public_domainRead Emotions have causes in full

Sources & attribution

Public domain

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Baruch Spinoza.

Every text we draw on is in the public domain. Baruch Spinoza is not impersonated, endorsed, or represented here — this is an AI reflection built from writings and philosophies associated with Baruch Spinoza, alongside the Enlightenment, Humanism, Moral philosophy traditions. Any words generated in a session are newly written by AI, not quotations, unless they are shown with a citation.