Immanuelle's Ethics

These are notes for the book based on Spinoza's Ethics written by Immanuelle Leonhart. It is also based on Euclid's Elements to some extent

Preface
"To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour" As you read the phenomena shine across the horizon.

The void reveals itself, yet the void is eternal

All encompassing and infinite.

Enter the void and it will tear you apart

Hide from the void and its waters will flood around you

Things shine and retreat

The void is terrifying vacuum

Yet you can master it

Children master it

Preface
There's difficulty in expressing concepts like non-propositional knowing because they have to be done so in propositional form

This gives an illusion of circularity, but it is not present. One does not need propositional knowing to understand perspectival knowing, because it is propositionally understood through propositions.

This is not a circularity though any more than talking about the origin of alphabets requires using an alphabet

Knowing
This is an attempt at definitions for different kinds of knowing

Propositional knowing
A traditional idea of knowledge is justified true belief

This raises questions


 * justified
 * justified how?
 * solution virtue epistemology
 * true
 * What is true
 * pragmatism
 * belief
 * Doesn't describe what a belief is except implied one can be false or not justified

Alternative to jtb
Well-constructed generally useful proposition


 * Well-constructed
 * Procedures create it
 * Generally
 * Can be generalized across many procedures, not just one
 * Useful/True
 * Useful links back to procedural knowing
 * Able to be used by procedures
 * Proposition
 * Modular piece of information

Procedural knowing
Procedural knowing is knowing how to do something

Procedural knowledge can use propositional knowledge, but propositional knowledge is useless without procedural knowledge

Learned ability to perform a task


 * learned
 * not innate
 * ability

Phenomenological knowing
Perspectival knowing provides context for and is modified by procedural knowing

Seeing the right task for the job