PHIL 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Baruch Spinoza, Determinism
5 May 2018
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-Descartes believe in 2 realms (Urology)
-Monist means someone who believes in one realm
-Spinoza
-How do I know that my mind corresponds to my body?
-John Locke, the empiricist, says that knowledge comes from experience
-Spinoza follows this
-He spends his time with ontology
-Ethics
-The Ethics has 5 parts. (I II III-V)
-What the world is like, how human knows the world, and ethics respectively
-Geometrically written
- how to live your life
-its groundbreaking to such an extent that he doesn’t publish it during his life time
-Spinoza 2
-If I'm going to do ethics (knowing between right and wrong, who is most virtuous), why
do I need the structure of the universe (metaphysics)
-S begins with the assumption that we are part of this world. He makes it possible to do
ethics.
-S is the father of modern seculist
-S begins with 2 questions
-Newton believes the universe is infinite
-There is a philosophical way to explain “method”
-Determinism: everything that happens is because of something that
happened before (Ex: Billiards)
-S: arguments are carefully crafted. He is very serious about how ideas connect with
other ideas
-Starts with determinism
-The consequence of this is that if the universe is infinite, where does God go?
-He is everywhere. God is not outside the universe anymore. He is inside it
-Outside: Transcendent
-Inside: Immanuet
-Because God is in the present, He is everywhere
-Difference between God and the universe?
-Nothing
-God becomes the universe
-God cannot be a person
-There is only one person
-God is the world, everything
-therefore, the only way to understand god is through the universe
-When people accuse him of being an atheist, his counterargument is that God
does not have to be the old testament God. Since God is the world, I am not an atheist
-God cannot create the world because He is the world
-Everything happens because of a prior cause
-But at some point, there needs a beginning
-Something that causes everything else
-The First Cause
-In theology, that is God.
-Spinoza
-Cause is everything
-Notion/Concept
-You don’t begin with this
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Document Summary
Monist means someone who believes in one realm. John locke, the empiricist, says that knowledge comes from experience. The ethics has 5 parts. (i ii iii-v) Its groundbreaking to such an extent that he doesn"t publish it during his life time. What the world is like, how human knows the world, and ethics respectively. If i"m going to do ethics (knowing between right and wrong, who is most virtuous), why do i need the structure of the universe (metaphysics) S begins with the assumption that we are part of this world. There is a philosophical way to explain method . Determinism: everything that happens is because of something that happened before (ex: billiards) He is very serious about how ideas connect with other ideas. Because god is in the present, he is everywhere. When people accuse him of being an atheist, his counterargument is that god.
