Spinoza – Scientifically Consider Human Actions and Desires
Thus the passions … follow from this same necessity and efficacy of nature; they answer to certain definite causes … possess certain properties as worthy of being known … the contemplation in itself affords us delight. I shall, therefore, treat of the nature and strength of the emotions according to the same method, as I employed […]
Definition of Attribute – Spinoza
By attribute, I mean that which the intellect perceives as constituting the essence of substance. Ethics by Benedict de Spinoza (1677)