Spinoza's Ethics Part 1, Axiom 2

by Corry Shores
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[the following is quotation; my summary and commentary is in brackets. The Latin text comes last.]

Spinoza, Ethics

Part I "Concerning God"

Axiom II:

II. That which cannot be conceived through anything else must be conceived through itself.

[If we cannot understand something in terms of other things, then we must understand it in terms of itself only.]

From the Latin:

II. Id, quod per aliud non potest concipi, per se concipi debet.

Spinoza. Ethics. Transl. Elwes. available online at:

http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/spinoza/benedict/ethics/index.html

Spinoza. Ethica. available online at:

http://www.hs-augsburg.de/~harsch/Chronologia/Lspost17/Spinoza/spi_eth0.html