Questions tagged [spinoza]
For questions about the Latin language as used by the philosopher Spinoza.
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Ethics of Spinoza – About word order
Spinoza, Ethics, De Deo, Appendix:
Si exempli gratia ex culmine aliquo lapis in alicujus caput ceciderit eumque interfecerit, ... demonstrabunt lapidem ad hominem interficiendum cecidisse. Ni enim ...
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English translation of a philosophical quote from Spinoza in Latin
Notandum, dari necessario unius cujusque rei existentis certam aliquam CAUSAM, propter quam existit. Et notandum, hanc causam, propter quam aliqua res existit, vel debere contineri in ipsa natura et ...
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Ethics of Spinoza: producendam
Spinoza, Ethics, De Deo, Propositio 33, Scholium 1:
res aliqua impossibilis dicitur; nimirum quia vel ipsius essentia seu definitio contradictionem involvit vel quia nulla causa externa datur ad ...
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Ethics of Spinoza - forte ea de causa
Spinoza, Ethics, De Deo, Propositio 28, Scholium:
Sequitur quod Deus non potest proprie dici causa esse remota rerum
singularium nisi forte ea de causa ut scilicet has ab iis quas
immediate produxit ...
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Partitive genitive in Spinoza
Spinoza, Ethics, De Deo, Propositio 15, Scholium:
Sane rerum quae realiter ab invicem distinctae sunt, una sine alia esse et in suo statu manere potest
Is rerum partitive genitive and is it ...
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Ethics of Spinoza - Question about Translation
Spinoza, Ethics, De Dei, Propositio 15, Scholium:
Si igitur ipsi ex suo hoc absurdo concludere tamen volunt substantiam extensam debere esse finitam, nihil aliud hercle faciunt quam si quis ex eo ...
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Using perfect participle as perfect active participle
Is perfect participle, in spite of the general notion, used both as perfect passive participle and perfect active participle?
Spinoza, Ethics, De Dei, Propositio 15, Scholium:
nam omnes qui ...
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The Nominative Case Uses
Spinoza writes in the last passage of Ethics:
Cum contra sapiens, quatenus ut talis consideratur, vix animo movetur, sed sui et Dei et rerum aeterna quadam necessitate conscius nunquam esse desinit,...
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Genitive with assigno
In Ethics, De Dei, Proposition 11, Second demonstration we read:
Cujuscunque rei assignari debet causa seu ratio tam cur existit
quam cur non existit
cujuscunque rei is genitive, but ...
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Ethics of Spinoza - Translation of "sit" and "satis"
Spinoza's ethics, On the God, Proposition 8, Scholium 2:
ut satis attendenti sit manifestum
4 translations of this sentence:
White:
as is evident to any one who pays a little attention
Shirley:
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About Spinoza's Latin
As Spinoza wrote in post-Renaissance times, I would imagine that his Latin was inspired by that of the humanists, which in turn was inspired by that in which Cicero himself wrote.
Is my logical ...
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What is the exact translation of 'solummodo'?
What is the exact meaning of 'solummodo'? I take it is an adverb, perhaps? Encountered this in new Latin, more precisely in Spinoza's Ethics. It is translated as 'only', but it is not in my dictionary,...
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Infinitive ' habere ' usage in this sentence
How to understand a meaning of the infinitive 'habere' here, is it here as a subject (The Infinitive as a Subject, Gildersleeve & Lodge, page 275)?
Nam cum posse existere potentia sit, sequitur ...
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'...quo plus..., eo plus ... ' translation?
Here is a really complicated sentence, I am trying to understand how to translate it:
Nam cum posse existere potentia sit, sequitur quo plus realitatis alicujus rei naturæ competit eo plus virium a ...
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Is 'extra' an adverb or preposition here?
At hæc causa (per notam II et III) non potest in ipsa natura humana contineri quandoquidem vera hominis definitio numerum vicenarium non involvit adeoque (per notam IV) causa cur hi viginti homines ...
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What is the Nominative of 'uniuscuiusque'?
This is taken from Spinoza's Ethics:
notandum est
Iƒ veram uniuscujusque rei definitionem nihil involvere neque exprimere præter rei definitæ naturam.
As I can see, it is Adjective in Genitive and ...
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'idem hercle esset' meaning?
What could be the meaning of hercle in this context?
Si quis ergo diceret se claram et distinctam hoc est veram ideam substantiæ habere et nihilominus dubitare num talis substantia existat, idem ...
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'Unde' and 'fit ut' meaning in this context
I would like to know how to understand unde in the last sentence:
SCHOLIUM II: Non dubito quin omnibus qui de rebus confuse judicant nec res per primas suas causas noscere consueverunt, difficile ...
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"Non possunt dari" translation
Please could someone explain what I am missing here?
In Spinoza's The Ethics, Proposition V is said:
PROPOSITIO V: In rerum natura non possunt dari duæ aut plures substantiæ ejusdem naturæ sive ...
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