bliss, ecstasy, nirvana, fullness

To the blissful generation

Restore the concept of bliss

The same satisfaction of the soul, which arises from the intuitive knowledge of God (Ethics IV, Appendix, Chapter 4. )

Contemporary philosophy sometimes seems to despise the term and concepts of bliss. This quest seems to him probably childish and silly. She thinks the same of philosophers whose work is steeped in ecstasy as Spinoza ? She suggests when it departs this reflection Spinoza work. Current materialist philosophers away ( in my opinion ) the work of Spinoza, to affirm their atheistic worldview. They want at their convenience, a great thought, instead of the return as it was thought. For Spinoza, God exists. It simply extends the envelope and reduces the activity *.

* as it seems quite appropriate to do so.

God is in everything, does not mean it is nothing. Make it the only substance that can exist and act by itself, gives all power to the contrary. God is Nature (and much more ), but not just any kind. The basic nature sense. Incapable to exist and act by itself in nature. She obeyed, as we even superior forces capable of being born and dying simple creatures. Divine Nature, however, is all in a infinite and unique shape. This is all things reduced to their essence – a bit like when physicists tell us that in the end, the universe is a pinhead.

2001

ecstasy

Toute la suite des hommes, pendant le cours de tant de siècles, doit être considéré comme un même homme qui subsiste et qui apprend continuellement.
La vieillesse de cette homme universel ne doit pas être cherché dans le temps proche de sa naissance mais dans ceux qui en sont le plus éloigné. Pascal

Le bonheur ne consiste pas dans la possession de troupeaux et de l'or. C'est dans l'âme qui est le siège de la béatitude. Démocrite