Friday, January 26, 2018

Parallelism and Techne

Spinoza's Parallelism is sometimes conceived as a theory of Cognition--a correspondance between the Sensory and Intellectual aspects of Perception.  It is also sometimes conceived as a theory of Events--a correspondance between their Causal and Rational aspects.  But it is rarely conceived as a theory of Action.  So, rarely recognized is its plain exemplification in Techne, e. g. in the following of a set of instructions, constituted by a sequence of physical motions that correspond to a plan.  Accordingly, since human Action is a Mode of divine creativity in Spinoza's system, rarely even considered is that Techne is a Mode of the Thought-Extension parallel attributes of Spinoza's God, the dynamic natures of which are better rendered as Thinking and Extending.

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