From: Chris Jones <ccjones-AT-turboweb.net.au>
Subject: Re: Re:Re: violence
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 07:59:54 +1100


Fred, 

I may be misreading this and haven't checked sources (EG Spinoza's 
_Ethics_) but I understood that the Spinozan body was monist and that 
Spinoza didn't really see a paradox as in a separation between 
thinking and the body. That is, if what you mean by imagination is 
some type of thinking which may take into this affect and emotion 
also, then I understood Spinoza as saying this would be an extension 
of the body and hence part of the body. However, within this body 
there may be paradoxical things, in so far as imagination could harm 
the body, for exampe, sure.

Maybe someone can correct me if I am wrong on this or mis-understand 
this? I am rather curious to know, also.

best

chris Jones.

>  I think it's
> paradoxical that we humans are bodies, but also imagination.  We're
> matter and we're energy.  To say we are only one would be Sartrean
> bad faith.  Play seems not only to tolerate paradox, but to be fed
> by it.
> Fred