General Education Culture and Belief 31 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Standard Oil, Whistle Rymes, Diodorus Cronus
21 Mar 2016
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Correction of the intellect, exposition of cartesian philosophy, the ethics (draft), a. Treatise on theology and politics (intellectual freedom), dies in 1677, posthumous. God, or nature: the table is just a modification of god it"s a localized way of god"s being, a mode of. Spinoza says this is the wrong question, because people think of god as a person some kind of benevolent father. You can approach the world through the attribute of thought and the attribute of extension: all hinges on god, the only substance. *spinoza"s master argument: p1: a substance with every possible attribute exists. It has every general way of being: p2: no two substances can have the same attribute, that would be absurd. So, a and b would not be different in virtue of their attributes after all: p2-p3: but if they are just distinct in their modes, they are the same substance, but they simply manifest it in different modes.
