What Baruch Spinoza thinks about consciousness
Dutch philosopher (1632 to 1677), born in Amsterdam's Portuguese-Jewish community; died in The Hague; author of the Ethics and the Theological-Political Treatise.
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1 dated position, c. 1670, in their own words. Our reading of what Baruch Spinoza has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingOrdinary natural knowledge is no less certain or divine in origin than prophetic knowledge
Their wordsIn respect to the certainty it involves, and the source from which it is derived, i.e. God, ordinary knowledge is no whit inferior to prophetic, unless indeed we believe, or rather dream, that the prophets had human bodies but superhuman minds, and therefore that their sensations and consciousness were entirely different from our own.
↗Theologico-Political Treatise, Part 1 (1670; R. H. M. Elwes translation)gutenberg.org All 20 from this book