Spinoza

Spinoza claims that in order for God to act in the world for a specific end, it must be that he is trying to bring about something which he lacks in himself. This is because God created all things for himself and on his own behalf, for to act on behalf of anything else would be impossible since nothing else existed at the time of creation by definition. As such God must have lacked these things and have desire them. It then follows that he no longer has all perfections. Instead, Spinoza wants to

Therefore, many philosophers came up with ideas to convince people to live ¨better¨. Rationalism related with the overview of mathematical approaches into philosophy during the period by the major rationalist figures such as Descartes, Leibniz and Spinoza developed people´s way of thinking in many different ways. Rationalism is perspective which engages the rational and deductive reason, an opposite structure from personal experience or teachings as the foundation of knowledge or rationalization. Therefore

If these great thinkers (Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz) were to discuss instead the soul’s connection to the body, what might each say (both on his own behalf and in response to the other)? Would they find any places where they might agree? If not, why not? (These are, after all, smart guys!)      Though this sort of meeting would strike me as a debate with as furiously disparate and uncompromising ideals as one would find in a meeting of Andrew Weil, Jerry Falwell

handicaps. All of the quadriplegic and paraplegic people in the world, they do not have the ability to move their arms or their legs whenever they feel like it because of damage to their nerve cords in multiple places in the back and neck region. Spinoza has been a supporter for non free will and that the laws of physics govern material bodies, and what happens to a material body is completely determined by what happened before. This happened because the mental and material are one and the same, what

Spinoza’s Ontological Argument in Regards to Monism Baruch Spinoza was a Dutch philosopher who was active in the mid to late 17th century. In Spinoza’s ontological argument he attempts to prove the existence of God as the root of all things that everything is created from as well as proving that God is the only true substance. According to Spinoza, “It pertains to the nature of a substance to exist” (Spinoza). This means that Spinoza believes existence is a necessary property of any single thing

Abstract and Referential Ontology: Descartes Versus Spinoza on the Existence of God. The concept of God is central to the development of Cartesian and Spinozan philosophy. Although both philosophers employ an ontological argument for the existence and necessity of God the specific nature of God differs greatly with each account. While Descartes suggests a Judeo-Christian concept of God, Spinoza argues a more monistic deity similar to that of the Hindu tradition. The most significant difference

THE IRONY IN HUMAN FREEDOM AND THE CONCEPT OF DETERMINISM Having the topic of freedom concerns me a lot because it is certainly a tough thing to tackle and honestly in my 17 years of living I don’t really know if I’m capable of discussing such crucial concept in lined with my chosen philosopher. In contradiction with this, I want to challenge myself if I have this “philosopher capability” to oppose and fight the different concepts in the world regarding freedom specifically the notion of Rene Descartes

many debates and opinions. Yet it is those opinions that are the most radical that demand the most attention. On that note, we will address two radical philosophizers: Spinoza and Hobbes. Specifically there theory's pertaining to matter and the mind-body problem posed by Descartes. As such we will first address Hobbes then move to Spinoza and end with a combined statement on matter. Therefore we must begin by introducing Thomas Hobbes. Thomas Hobbes solution on the mind-body problem is one of a combination

Mary Wollstonecraft, born in 1759, is known as one of the world’s most influential liberal, feminist authors. With her literary works appalling the world with her radical ideas in a fairly conservative time period. She is renowned to have her feminist, but also rational, views on equal rights and education as all she wanted was women to not be excluded from men. The topic of this essay is Wollstonecraft’s basic theoretical and applied philosophy in relation to her role in the movement of Romanticism

Benedict De Spinoza is famous for his theory on monism. Monism is the notion that everything consists of only one thing. For Spinoza, this one thing is a substance he calls God. His monism is the argument that God is the substance which makes up everything. This has been interpreted to work in a variety of ways. In this essay, I am going to argue that Spinoza’s monism does work through one interpretation of the numerical distinction of substances and attributes. First, I will lay out Spinoza’s actual