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68. - Feeling

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 January 2025

By
Kristin Primus
Edited by
Karolina Hübner  and
Justin Steinberg
Karolina Hübner
Affiliation:
Cornell University, New York
Justin Steinberg
Affiliation:
Cornell University, New York
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Summary

The language of a mind “sensing” or “feeling” (sentire) can be found where Spinoza discusses the awareness a human mind has of changes to the human body: for instance, “we feel [sentimus] that a certain body [NS: our body] is affected in many ways” (E2a4). Yet a mind also senses modes of Thought and changes within its own thinking: for instance, “we neither feel [sentimus] nor perceive [percipimus] any singular things [NS: or anything of Natura naturata], except bodies and modes of thinking” (E2a5; cf. KV2n13, i/52).

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The Cambridge Spinoza Lexicon , pp. 176 - 178
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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