...matters which appertain to the duration of the mind without relation to the body. PROP. XXI.— The mind can imagine nothing, nor can it recollect anything that is past, except while the body exists. Demonst.—The mind does not express the actual existence of its body, nor does it conceive as actual...

...exists. It can therefore imagine nothing (see the definition of Imagination in Schol. Prop. 1 7, pt. 2), nor can it recollect anything that is past, except while the body exists (see the definition of Memory in Schol. Prop. 1 8, pt. 2). — QBD PROP. XXII. — In God, nevertheless,...

...can therefore ascribe duration to the soul only so long as the body exists (II, viii). Moreover, " the soul can imagine nothing nor can it recollect anything that is past, except while the body continues to exist " (V, xxi). From these two propositions, it would seem to follow that the soul ceases...

...concerning its body, or any part thereof, a force for existence, greater or less than before and by the presence of which the mind is determined to think...soul, a little in advance of those of Descartes. Hume 4 followed the views of Berkeley, except in regard to a sepa1 Locke : Human Understanding, II, xxvii,...

...something that retains any continuity of consciousness with the mind's existence during life. "The mind can imagine nothing, nor can it recollect anything that is past, except while the body endures (nisi durante Corpore)" (Ethics V, Proposition XXI; Gebhardt 211 Marjorie Grent and Debra Nails...

...Body." 45 Spinoza too held to a view which was tantamount to a denial of personal immortality: "The mind can imagine nothing, nor can it recollect anything that is past, except while the body exists." Like Spinoza, Overton denied that the "soul" was "any selfe distinct Being"; as Spinoza would put it,...

...life" and its effect upon one's "present life." Spinoza puts it categorically in this way : "The mind can imagine nothing, nor can it recollect anything that is past, except while the body exists."7 And so long as one's body exists, one is confined empirically to one's "present life." One...

...mastered by them. We now come to the fifth part. The twenty-first proposition proves that " the mind can imagine nothing, nor can it recollect anything that is past, except while the body exists." This calls for no comment. The next proposition is that " in God, nevertheless, there necessarily exists...