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Understanding Spinoza (Part 3): Freedom and Necessity

Understanding Spinoza (part 3): Freedom and Necessity
When understanding Spinoza we discover that the most profound conclusion from his philosophy is to be found in Part I, Proposition XXIX.
‘In the nature of things nothing contingent is admitted, but all things are determined by the necessity of divine nature to exist and act in a certain [...]

November 16th, 2007 | therationalgod | 0 comments | Continued
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Understanding Spinoza (Part 2)

Understanding Spinoza (Part 2)
This post is to develop further towards understanding Spinoza’s metaphysics and to look at the crucial ideas he raises. Spinoza’s main work, The Ethics, in effect introduces a set of definitions and elucidations of each of the fundamental notions of substance, cause, attribute, freedom and necessity, explaining each in terms of the [...]

November 10th, 2007 | therationalgod | 0 comments | Continued
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Understanding Spinoza

Understanding Spinoza
If you are ever going to get more than a brief understanding of pantheism then it is vital to get to grips with understanding Spinoza. Spinoza was not the first pantheist, but he is probably the most influential pantheist since the time of the enlightenment. The decline of theism and the rise of alternative [...]

November 5th, 2007 | therationalgod | 2 comments | Continued