Explain What Spinoza Means When He Says, "There Is in the Mind

question 33

Essay

Explain what Spinoza means when he says, "there is in the mind no absolute faculty of understanding, desiring, loving, etc. Whence it follows, that these and similar faculties are either entirely fictitious, or are merely abstract and general terms, such as we are accustomed to put together from particular things." Do you agree with Spinoza?

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