Oct 21, 2014 11:48
9 yrs ago
French term
Fast and Accurate
Native in: English
Works in: Russian to English, French to English, Italian to English, and 1 more.
instances
French to English
Social Sciences
Philosophy
From an academic text on Spinoza's philosophy:
L’homme semble donc constitué par deux ***instances***, l’appétit, d’une part, la raison, d’autre part, dont l’unité est problématique. Il est soumis à deux systèmes de lois naturelles : les lois naturelles de l’appétit, les lois naturelles de la raison, et il voit alterner et triompher l’un ou l’autre de ces systèmes, à proportion de son ignorance ou de son éducation.
L’homme semble donc constitué par deux ***instances***, l’appétit, d’une part, la raison, d’autre part, dont l’unité est problématique. Il est soumis à deux systèmes de lois naturelles : les lois naturelles de l’appétit, les lois naturelles de la raison, et il voit alterner et triompher l’un ou l’autre de ces systèmes, à proportion de son ignorance ou de son éducation.
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structures/parts
rather like the use in psychoanalysis "une instance est une entité psychique qui regroupe des forces similaires ou fait appel à un principe particulier"
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Elizabeth Slaney
: Yes, I like "parts". As parts of the psychic apparatus.
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writeaway
: if it's not based on Spinoza's original Italian, at least it's based on something concrete
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John Holland
: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?&q=spinoza "parts of the s... FWIW, Spinoza wrote in Latin. He was born and lived in Amsterdam and his family was Portuguese. http://www.iep.utm.edu/spinoza/
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Thanks for the link!
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SilvijaG
: @John: Thank you, John. I was waiting if someone is going to say something about Latin :)
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Thank you!"
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Chakib Roula
Algeria
Algeria
Native in French
Algeria
Shedding light out of words
Native in: Arabic 
, French
Works in: Arabic to French, Arabic to English, French to English, and 3 more.
Appeal/temptation
Une suggestion
+1
28 mins
powers
Using instances in the sense of tribunal or that which governs.
As here
Some commentators take these problems with Spinoza's social contract to be insurmountable, and for this reason they regard him as coming to his senses when be abandons the contract in the TP (Wernham 1958, 25–27). Others have tried to reinterpret the contract in a way that is makes it consistent with his naturalism. For instance, Barbone and Rice distinguish between two concepts that have been rendered in English as “power.” On the one hand there is potentia, which is the power that is essential to the individual (Barbone and Rice 2000, 17). <i/>
taken from
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/spinoza-political/
As here
Some commentators take these problems with Spinoza's social contract to be insurmountable, and for this reason they regard him as coming to his senses when be abandons the contract in the TP (Wernham 1958, 25–27). Others have tried to reinterpret the contract in a way that is makes it consistent with his naturalism. For instance, Barbone and Rice distinguish between two concepts that have been rendered in English as “power.” On the one hand there is potentia, which is the power that is essential to the individual (Barbone and Rice 2000, 17). <i/>
taken from
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/spinoza-political/
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writeaway
: the trouble here is that Spinoza wrote in Italian, so as far as his terms are concerned, this is a translation of a translation
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Alison Kelly
: "the Latin terms used by Spinoza, potestas and potentia, have distinct correlates in most European languages ([...] pouvoir and puissance in French, [...]), English provides only a single term, power" http://www.generation-online.org/p/fpnegri17.htm
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Elizabeth Slaney
: How would you translate "constitué par"?
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demands
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Verginia Ophof
Belize
Belize
Native in English
Belize
Near Native Proficiency in Source langua
Native in: English
Works in: Portuguese to English, Dutch to English, French to English
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4
concerns
suggestion
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Note added at 47 mins (2014-10-21 12:35:12 GMT)
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drives/urges
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Note added at 47 mins (2014-10-21 12:35:12 GMT)
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drives/urges
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Jean-Claude Gouin
: The two concerns (drives and urges) are food and reason ...
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SilvijaG
: Yes! Drives/urges, that should be your answer, Verginia!
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Thank you Silvija !!
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Francis Marche
France
France
Native in French
&
English
France
36 years experience on 4 continents
Native in: French , English
Works in: English to French, French to English
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32
injunctions
Confirmed by E. Kant himself in "The Metaphysics of Ethics" : Reason says that I ought not to lie, be the advantages of falsehood ever so great. Lying is mean, and makes man
unworthy to be happy. Here is an unconditionate ***injunction of reason*** to be obeyed, in the face of which all appetite and inclination must be silent.
https://archive.org/stream/metaphysicofeth00kant/metaphysico...
unworthy to be happy. Here is an unconditionate ***injunction of reason*** to be obeyed, in the face of which all appetite and inclination must be silent.
https://archive.org/stream/metaphysicofeth00kant/metaphysico...
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solicitations
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/solicitation
a few other possibilities in there too.
a few other possibilities in there too.
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nweatherdon
Canada
Canada
Native in English
Canada
Economics, finance and biosciences
Native in: English
Works in: French to English, English to French, Spanish to English, and 2 more.
halves
Seems to work well with the difficulty of "unity" of the two parts later on in the sentence. But otherwise I think "parts" is probably OK.
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