Presenting its author's double aspect theory of the mind, its first part, "Concerning God," begins the distinction between such ideas as substance, attribute, and mode.
At one point, the author uses the metaphor of building a house, saying that people will pronounce a house perfect when it is completed, but that one cannot pronounce anything perfect without knowing the intention of its maker. The paradox of Buridan's Ass is rejected as irrational, and its author later concludes that rational man is freer abiding by the laws of a State than living independently in solitude in part four, "Of Human Bondage, Or The Strength of the Emotions." Presenting its author's double aspect theory of the mind, its first part, "Concerning God," begins the distinction between such ideas as substance, attribute, and mode. FTP, name this magnum opus "presented in a geometrical order," by Baruch Spinoza.
At one point, the author uses the metaphor of building a house, saying that people will pronounce a house perfect when it is completed, but that one cannot pronounce anything perfect without knowing the intention of its maker.
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