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Dostoevsky Vs. Spinoza
Editor’s Note: In the early 1990’s, I was studying Spinoza and had begun reading Dostoevsky, too, along the way. These two texts went together very nicely, or so it seemed to me at the time… And it still seems that … Continue reading
Posted in philosophy
Tagged despair, determinism, dostoevsky, freedom, laws of nature, logic, mathematics, notes from the underground, resignation, spinoza
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Gnosis and the Active Intellect in Aristotle
“This does not mean that at one time [the active intellect] thinks but at another time it does not think, but when separated [from the body] it is just exactly what it is, and this alone is deathless and everlasting … Continue reading
Posted in Nonduality, philosophy
Tagged active intellect, angst, aristotle, despair, existence, gnosis, hard problem of consciousness, nihilism, passive intellect, rudolf steiner
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Life Streams - Narrative and Grace... 