An idea is not something mute like a picture on a pad.(Baruch Spinoza)(Critical essay) The Review of Metaphysics | March 1, 2009| | COPYRIGHT 2009 Philosophy Education Society, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

SPINOZA KEPT A SKETCHBOOK in which he made drawings of his many visitors. Unlike Plotinus, he was not ashamed of his body and included himself among his renderings. (1) But the pictures were mute and still. They might suggest the sitters' personalities, but they did not move or speak. When the visitors had left Spinoza's lodgings, their conversations might linger in memory or continue in correspondence. A picture could not preserve them. Even a moving picture, had there been such things, could not bring them back to life.

Acting was another matter. Spinoza had taken ...

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