Я мыслю. Интеллект — это страсть

Rene Dekart i Benedikt Spinoza - dva velichaĭshikh mysliteli͡a Novogo vremeni; pro nikh govorili, chto oni osvobodili filosofii͡u ot okov srednevekovʹi͡a i postavili voprosy, kotorye navsegda ostanutsi͡a glavnymi. Dekart napri͡amui͡u svi͡azyval sushchestvovanie cheloveka so sposobnostʹi͡u k myshlenii͡u ('i͡a mysli͡u, sledovatelʹno, sushchestvui͡u'), on zhe utverzhdal, chto 'intellekt - ėto strastʹ'.Granit͡sy mira i poznanii͡a, mesto i rolʹ cheloveka v mire, ėticheskie normy, takie kak dobro i zlo, li͡ubovʹ i nenavistʹ, prezrenie i samounichizhenie, sovestʹ, - vsë ėto s neobychaĭnoĭ glubinoĭ issleduetsi͡a v rabotakh Dekarta i Spinozy, predstavlennykh v dannoĭ knige.

Rene Descartes and Benedict Spinoza are two of the greatest thinkers of Modern times; they were said to have freed philosophy from the shackles of the Middle Ages and raised questions that will forever remain central. Descartes directly linked the existence of man with the ability to think ('I think, therefore I exist'), he also argued that 'intelligence is passion'.The boundaries of the world and knowledge, the place and role of man in the world, ethical norms such as good and evil, love and hate, contempt and self-abasement, conscience-all this is explored with extraordinary depth in the works of Descartes and Spinoza presented in this book.