id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 971 Spinoza, Benedictus de Ethics — Part 4 .txt text/plain 22594 1339 78 imperfect: for men are wont to form general ideas of things natural, no thing's power of action, in so far as this is understood by its nature, Proof.The power, whereby each particular thing, and consequently man, Proof.Desire is the essence of a man (Def. of the Emotions, i.), Proof.Virtue is human power, which is defined solely by man's essence Proof.In so far as a thing is in harmony with our nature, it cannot be thing is to man most useful, which is most in harmony with his nature as he has a greater knowledge of God. Proof.Men, in so far as they live in obedience to reason, are most Proof.Pleasure (III:xi.&Note) is emotion, whereby the body's power of man's true power of action or virtue is reason herself (III:iii.), as emotions of pleasure and pain; as for the desires, they are good or bad ./cache/971.txt ./txt/971.txt