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The Ethics

PART III
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He who conceives that the object of his hate is destroyed will also feel pleasure.
Proof .-- The mind (III.

xiii.) endeavours to conceive those things, which exclude the existence of things whereby the body's power of activity is diminished or constrained; that is (III.
xiii.

note), it endeavours to conceive such things as exclude the existence of what it hates; therefore the image of a thing, which excludes the existence of what the mind hates, helps the aforesaid mental effort, in other words (III.xi.

note), affects the mind pleasurably.

Thus he who conceives that the object of his hate is destroyed will feel pleasure.


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