《哲学的故事》读书笔记

仍然和之前一样，笔记内容不一定是斯宾诺莎的话语，只是讲述他时用到的文字。Emma不怎么了解斯宾诺莎，他给我一种漆黑的感觉，像深海一般。

The cleverest defenders of a faith are its greatest enemies; for their subtleties engender doubt and stimulate the mind. 对于一种信仰，最拥护它的也是它最大的敌人，因为细微的差别都引起其关注和思考。

也是因为这样，（I think，therefore I am）他失去了原有的信仰，原为犹太教会最喜欢的学生斯宾诺莎后被开除教籍。

Spinosa sufferred from the loss of his old faith; to so uproot the contents of one's mind is a major operation, and leaves many wounds. 根除思想的内核是一项大手术，会使人伤痕累累。

Emma作为一名有宗教信仰的信徒，可以为这句话证明，思想的改变是颠覆性的改变。

从此不信神的斯宾诺莎，在一个信神的环境里绝对不好过，但他是为自己而活了。因为了解的不多，不能结合他的生平谈他思想的产生过程，但是仅仅尝到他的这些果实，也是足以果腹啦。

Only knowledge, then, is power and freedom; and the only permanent happiness is the pursiuit of knowledge and the joy of understanding. (只有还是能带来力量和自由，唯一的永恒快乐就是追逐知识和理解的愉悦。)

就来看看这位理性主义是怎样的好玩吧。 “By virtue and power I mean the same thing; the more a man can preserve his being and seek what is useful to him, the greater is his virtue.” 他认为德行是行动的力量。 He thinks that egoism is a necessary corollary of the supreme instinct of self-preservation. No one ever neglect anything which he judges to be good, except with the hope of gaining a gretaer good.人们不会忽略自己认为好的，除非想得到更好的。

Passion without reason is blind, reason without passion is dead. (没有理性的激情是盲目的，没有激情的理性是死寂的。) 思想不应缺乏欲望之火，而欲望而不应丧失思想的光辉。

Freedom is not from casual law or process, but from partial passion or impulse; and freedomis not from passion, but from uncoordinated and uncompleted passion. (自由并不是摆脱常规的规律或过程，而是摆脱了部分的激情；自由也不是摆脱激情，而是摆脱了未经调节和不顾大局的激情。） 所以说，自由，往往不在枷锁之中。

All education presupposes determinism, and pours into the open mind of youth a store of prohibitions which are exoected to participate in determining conduct. 所有教育的目的都是决定主义的，对年轻的思想灌输一套禁忌，期望这些禁忌能够参与他们行为的决策。

A free man thinks of nothing less than of death; and his wisdom is a meditation not on death but on life. 一个自由的人不考虑死，他智慧的思考不在于死而在于生。

救赎若唾手可得，又怎会人人忽视呢？ All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare.卓越总是少数的，故难以寻觅。