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2 days ago · The attraction of Spinoza's philosophy to late 18th-century Europeans was that it provided an alternative to materialism, atheism, and deism. Three of Spinoza's ideas strongly appealed to them: the unity of all that exists; the regularity of all that happens; the identity of spirit and nature.
- Benedictus de Spinoza
3 days ago · Here are 5 of Spinoza’s most influential philosophical notions and their acceptance today: Monism: Spinoza’s idea of one all-encompassing substance (often equated with God or Nature) is a radical departure from traditional dualism (mind and body, God and world). Acceptance: This concept is still debated.
1 day ago · Ad Policy A portrait of Benedict (Baruch) Spinoza, 1754. (Photo by Bridgeman via Getty Images) Born in Amsterdam in 1632, Baruch Spinoza was the most original thinker of the European Enlightenment.
5 days ago · Benedictus (Baruch) de Spinoza. As the earliest polemics against his Tractatus Theologico-Politicus (1670) show, Spinoza’s contemporaries were well aware that his radical criticism owed much to the humanist philological tradition and to other philosophers. But the impact of this shocking book went far beyond anything previously written; its ...
3 days ago · A standard reading of the argumentation for Ethics Ip11 has Spinoza contending that because there is no reason or cause for the non-existence of God, God exists, Here I grant that in Ip11 Spinoza is appealing to the claim that there is no reason or cause for the non-existence of God. However, I argue that he is assuming that the existence of God is obvious from Ip7 and Ip8s2 and then positing ...
3 days ago · Pantheism was popularized in Western culture as a theology and philosophy based on the work of the 17th-century philosopher Baruch Spinoza, in particular, his book Ethics. [10] A pantheistic stance was also taken in the 16th century by philosopher and cosmologist Giordano Bruno.
