There is human freedom for Spinoza, however, in the sense of freedom from external interference: I am free in producing some effect (that is, in doing something) if that effect follows from my essence alone, or, in other words, if it is the effect of my striving alone.
Because joy and sadness as introduced at IIIp11s are passions, all of the desires arising from them or species of them are passive as well, that is, they are not desires which arise from a person's striving alone but only as a partial cause in combination with other, ultimately external causes.
No such tonic immersion is available to most contemporary writers, who, as sequestered as ever, must strive alone to transcend the general impoverishment of the political imagination.
You could argue that this is part of the deal — maybe Elwood has so plumped and cushioned his life that his superiors no longer notice his slack demeanor and his mumbled delivery, let alone strive to correct them.
Mr. Molina's imperious, pontifical Rothko strides the stage with dark command, and the painting assistant played by Mr. Redmayne mostly prods him with questions that lead Rothko into high-toned musings and aphorisms on the meaning of art and the benighted world that cannot recognize greatness, let alone strive for it as giants like Rothko strive.
The Catholic Church continues to strive -- mostly alone.
I've had plenty of boyfriends but now I'm alone again, and striving for that same thing I've been looking for since I was 15.
I've had plenty of boyfriends, but now I'm alone again and striving for that same thing I've been looking for since I was 15.
Ocean recorded his vocals alone for several months, striving intensively for high performance standards, before rejoining Malay for the album's production.
He will be seen as a gullible, if sincere, patsy, unwittingly providing support to precisely that which he is striving to avoid: rampant go-it-alone US unilateralism.
That promise alone showed that, while he was striving for a solution compatible with the interests of all parties, he also wanted to gain the South German states as allies against the Prussian-Russian designs of aggrandizement.
