转述
The mind, both insofar as it has clear and distinct ideas and insofar as it has confused ideas, endeavours to persist in its being for an indefinite period, and of this endeavour it is conscious.
部分论断以英文显示,因为尚无经审校的最新译文。
The mind, both insofar as it has clear and distinct ideas and insofar as it has confused ideas, endeavours to persist in its being for an indefinite period, and of this endeavour it is conscious.
The mind is necessarily aware of itself through the ideas of the body's modifications, and since its essence is conatus (III.P7), it is aware of its own striving.
现在努力(conatus)成为了我们可以感受到的东西。先前的步骤将努力确立为一种普遍的形而上学事实——甚至石头也在努力。但人类拥有作为复杂身体之观念的心灵,而那些心灵是有自我意识的(II.P23)。所以我们不仅仅在努力;我们知道我们在努力。这种有意识的努力是所有主观情感生活的根源。我们感受到自己力量的增减,因为心灵意识到身体的状态,而身体的状态就是行动中的努力(conatus)。
心灵的本质由充分观念和不充分观念共同构成(ce-04, III.P3)。根据ce-08,这个本质就是努力(conatus)。心灵通过身体变状的观念意识到自身(II.P23)。因此心灵意识到自己的努力。
有意识的努力是所有情感生活的主观根源。
此时此刻,你能注意到自己的努力(conatus)——一种坚持存在的背景性嗡鸣——吗?如果有什么感觉的话,那是什么样的?