Antonio Giardino

In the present essay I will try to give an interpretation of Spinozistic adequate knowledge based on «ontological holism». With this expression I mean that, according to the Ethics, each thing has a total and real existence only in God, together with its causes and its effects, and has a partial existence isolated or abstracted from them, e.g. in each of its affection. The adequate idea corresponds to the whole reality of the thing, while the inadequate idea corresponds to its partial reality...