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  2. Jun 29, 2001 · Spinoza’s ethical theory is, to a certain degree, Stoic, and recalls the doctrines of thinkers such as Cicero and Seneca: We do not have an absolute power to adapt things outside us to our use.

  3. Along with Leibniz and Descartes, Spinoza is considered to be one of the main representatives of 17th century rationalism; a philosophical position that holds that reason is the chief source of knowledge.

  4. Jan 29, 2024 · Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) was a Dutch philosopher who combined rationalism and metaphysics to create a unique system of thought. Spinoza was held up as an atheist philosopher in the 18th century, but...

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  5. The tradition of Continental rationalism was carried on by two philosophers of genius: the Dutch Jewish philosopher Benedict de Spinoza (1632–77) and his younger contemporary Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716), a Leipzig scholar and polymath.

  6. Jan 10, 2022 · Spinoza is often taken to endorse the correspondence theory of truth, that is, roughly, the view that truth consists in some sort of conformity of thought to reality. Spinoza himself puts the point in terms of “agreement”: “A true idea must agree with [ convenire ] its object” (E1ax6).

  7. The images involved in their prophesies could be of use in communicating the moral message, but Spinoza's rationalism (with the general rationalist distinction between imagination and the intellect) meant that their words should be given no weight in the search for truth about the nature of God.

  8. Rationalism holds that the human mind has the capacity, logically speaking, to establish truths about the nature of reality (including ourselves) by reason alone independently of experience; indeed, if knowledge of the fundamental structure of the world in the proper scientific sense is possible, then it must be derived from reason, which alone ...

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