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Baruch Spinoza, for a 5-year-old
Posted by Holger:
Thanks to Ai,
here is a simplified explanation
for a 5-year-old:
“Imagine you’re looking at a big, colorful picture of people doing all sorts of things. Some people are laughing, some are crying, some are angry, and some are being kind to each other.
Now, instead of saying “That person is bad because they’re angry” or “That person is good because they’re happy,” we’re going to try to understand why they feel that way.
It’s like when you see rain outside. You don’t say the rain is bad, right? You just know it’s part of the weather. In the same way, all the feelings people have – like being happy, sad, or angry – are just part of being human.
When we try to understand why people feel certain ways instead of judging them, it’s like solving a fun puzzle. And just like how you enjoy figuring out a puzzle, grown-ups can enjoy understanding why people act the way they do.”
Here is the original version (for grownups):
“I have laboured carefully, not to mock, lament, or execrate human actions, but to understand them; and, to this end, I have looked upon passions, such as love, hatred, anger, envy, ambition, pity, and the other perturbations of the mind, not in the light of vices of human nature, but as properties, just as pertinent to it, as are heat, cold, storm, thunder, and the like to the nature of the atmosphere, which phenomena, though inconvenient, are yet necessary, and have fixed causes, by means of which we endeavour to understand their nature, and the mind has just as much pleasure in viewing them aright, as in knowing such things as flatter the senses.”
Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677)
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Created: September 9, 2024
Last modified: September 9, 2024
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