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Active affects are all increases in the power with which we strive.
It also explains why the distinction between active affects and passions is important to Spinoza.
Of these active affects, the most important for an interpretation of Spinoza's ethics and political philosophy is likely nobility.
Only active affects and those passions that signal an increase in our power of acting are enjoyable.
It is, Spinoza maintained, only our passive emotions that can produce conflict with the dictates of our reason; our active affects accord well with reason.
But acting according to the dictates of our own nature pushes us to overcome the passions in general, or when possible, to turn them into active affects.
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Nobility is the active affect most closely related to Spinoza's views about morality and the state.
Protons, being chemically very active, affect virtually every class of ion channel [21] as well as a number of metabolic pathways.
Interestingly, the three mutants are shown in the present study to be active affect side chains (residues 265, 269 and 556) on the periphery of our homology model.
To test this hypothesis, we determined how a tightly bound primer template in the polymerase active site affects exonuclease activity.
The derived Hill coefficient n measures how much the binding of substrate to one active site affects the binding of substrate to the other active sites.
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