Keeping Them With You: Spinoza, Love, and Eternal Minds

In Ethics 5 , Spinoza writes that “something” of the human mind remains eternally beyond death (E5p23). I develop a novel implication of this doctrine, given Spinoza’s views of knowledge and interpersonal love. I argue that one can Spinozistically keep the eternal element of a passed loved one “with them” by developing adequate ideas of parts of their loved one’s essence. §1 identifies [...]