(34:8) The cause for their opposition lies, as I have said, solely in
the fact that they are assumed to differ. (9) For we assume that Peter
has the idea of the loved object as already in his possession, while Paul
has the idea of the loved object as lost. (10) Hence the one man will be
affected with pleasure, the other will be affected with pain, and thus
they will be at variance one with another. (34:11) We can easily show in
like manner, that all other causes of hatred depend solely on differences,
and not on the agreement between men's natures.
Prop. XXXV. In so far only as men live in obedience to reason,
do they always necessarily agree in nature.
Proof.- (35:1) In so far as men are assailed by emotions that are
passions, they can be different in nature ([xxxiii] ), and at variance
one with another. (2) But men are only said to be active, in so far
as they act in obedience to reason (III:[iii] ); therefore, what so ever
follows from human nature in so far as it is defined by reason must
(III:[D.ii] ) be understood solely through human nature as its proximate
cause. (35:3) But, since every man by the laws of his nature desires
that which he deems good, and endeavours to remove that which he deems
bad ([xix] ); and further, since that which we, in accordance with reason,
deem good or bad, necessarily is good or bad (II:[xli] ); it follows
that men, in so far as they live in obedience to reason, necessarily
do only such things as are necessarily good for human nature, and
consequently for each individual man ([xxxi] Coroll.
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