HIS330H5 Lecture Notes - Baruch Spinoza
Document Summary
Bm draws his opinions on affect from spinoza and deluze. Affect, for deluze and spinoza, is an index of power: we may feel pain (a sad passion) when our power of acting is diminishes, we may feel pleasure (a joyful passion) when it is enhanced bm, 128. Affect = an index of power; property of body for bm. Postulate 2: we have a succession of ideas that affect us in certain ways, ex. When you meet with paul you feel good or reassured. But you maintain a stable part of you even through changes in idea. You don"t know why patrick makes you feel the way you do thus its an inadequate idea of patrick (only know the affect but don"t know the cause) Variations that we constantly undergo is based in our inadequate ideas then you"ll see someone else to get affected to have a further negative power of existence or action (or positive).
