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Chan-Seung Lee
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 Posted: Fri Dec 13, 2013 9:51 pm Post subject: nothing less than |
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| Spinoza says that a free man thinks of nothing less than of death. It is unnecessary to dwell upon it, but it is foolish, as so many do, to shrink from all consideration of it. |
Could you paraphrase the unlined part in the above?
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IanT
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| Posted: Sun Dec 15, 2013 3:55 pm Post subject: |
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Hmmm.
Basically, it means "a free man doesn't think about death at all."
Spinoza's idea of a "free man" seems quite complex, but you could say something like "a man not influenced by anything at all outside himself"
Does that help?
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Ian
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