In the Mind there is no absolute, or free, will, but the Mind is determined
to will this or that by a cause which is also determined by another, and this
again by another, and so to infinity.
Absolutely logical because its a call to improve your surroundings with which you interact and Spinoza qualifies by stating improving your grasp of the world one assumes you impart & pass that on , things do get better. Unfortunately there are those fundamentalists for which only one ULTIMATE pov allowed, one set of references which for them is the ONLY truth from their conditioning .
Would you like a few million current examples? Spinoza is absolutely spot on, but for pretenders such as yourself that can't handle the truth.
We still ought to strive to understand the world around us, and in doing so, gain a greater degree of power, which will allow us to be more active than passive, and there is a sense in which this is a kind of freedom. |
