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Baruch Spinoza - From Descartes and Malebranche onward...
From Descartes and Malebranche onward, the metaphysical value of the "idea” or archetype steadily deteriorated. It became a "thought,” an internal condition of cognition, as clearly formulated by Spinoza: "By 'idea' I understand a conception of the mind which the mind forms by reason of its being a thinking thing.” Finally Kant reduced the archetypes to a limited number of categories of understanding. (Baruch Spinoza)

From Descartes and Malebranche onward, the metaphysical value of the "idea” or archetype steadily deteriorated. It became a "thought,” an internal condition of cognition, as clearly formulated by Spinoza: "By 'idea' I understand a conception of the mind which the mind forms by reason of its being a thinking thing.” Finally Kant reduced the archetypes to a limited number of categories of understanding.

Baruch Spinoza

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