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Baruch Spinoza
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They were polished by the Dutch philosopher Spinoza sometime during the mid-1600s.†
Chpt 17

Spinoza = Dutch philosopher of the early Enlightenment (1632-1677)

I would probably understand better how valuable these things are if I knew who Spinoza and Descartes were.†
Chpt 17

After a while he pointed down at the table between them and said: "The two greatest philosophers in the seventeenth century were Descartes and Spinoza.†
Chpt 17

The first significant system-builder was Descartes, and he was followed by Spinoza and Leibniz, Locke and Berkeley, Hume and Kant.†
Chpt 18

Spinoza God is not a puppeteer They sat silently for a long time.†
Chpt 19

Perhaps most of all for another great philosopher, Ba-ruch Spinoza, who lived from 1632 to 1677.†
Chpt 19

Spinoza belonged to the Jewish community of Amsterdam, but he was excommunicated for heresy.†
Chpt 19

Spinoza interpreted this as meaning both love of God and love of humanity.†
Chpt 19

When things got really tough, Spinoza was even deserted by his own family.†
Chpt 19

Paradoxically enough, few have spoken out more powerfully in the cause of free speech and religious tolerance than Spinoza.†
Chpt 19

One of the pillars of Spinoza's philosophy was indeed to see things from the perspective of eternity.†
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Not entirely ...Spinoza didn't only say that everything is nature.†
Chpt 19

To Spinoza, God did not create the world in order to stand outside it.†
Chpt 19

Sometimes Spinoza expresses it differently.†
Chpt 19

But let us pursue Spinoza's own reasoning.†
Chpt 19

When Spinoza uses the word ethics, he means both the art of living and moral conduct.†
Chpt 19

Spinoza was part of the same rationalistic tradition.†
Chpt 19

Well, Spinoza is not an easy philosopher to grasp.†
Chpt 19

However, Spinoza rejected this split.†
Chpt 19

Thus Spinoza does not have the dualistic view of reality that Descartes had.†
Chpt 19

Ah, but the difference between Descartes and Spinoza is not as deep-seated as many have often claimed.†
Chpt 19

It's only when Spinoza identifies God with nature—or God and creation—that he distances himself a good way from both Descartes and from the Jewish and Christian doctrines.†
Chpt 19

But when Spinoza uses the word 'nature,' he doesn't only mean extended nature.†
Chpt 19

According to Spinoza, we humans recognize two of God's qualities or manifestations.†
Chpt 19

Spinoza called these qualities God's attributes, and these two attributes are identical with Descartes's 'thought' and 'extension.'†
Chpt 19

Yes, one almost needs a hammer and chisel to get through Spinoza's language.†
Chpt 19

Spinoza maintained that all material things and things that happen around us are an expression of God or nature.†
Chpt 19

Spinoza believed that God—or the laws of nature—is the inner cause of everything that happens.†
Chpt 19

Spinoza had a determinist view of the material, or natural, world.†
Chpt 19

Briefly, that was also Spinoza's ethics.†
Chpt 19

According to Spinoza, this tree is free.†
Chpt 19

Spinoza emphasizes that there is only one being which is totally and utterly 'its own cause' and can act with complete freedom.†
Chpt 19

Spinoza said that it was our passions—such as ambition and lust—which prevent us from achieving true happiness and harmony, but that if we recognize that everything happens from necessity, we can achieve an intuitive understanding of nature as a whole.†
Chpt 19

This was what Spinoza called seeing everything 'sub specie aeternitatis.'†
Chpt 19

Then he said: "Last time we sat here I told you about Descartes and Spinoza.†
Chpt 20

The leading rationalists in the seventeenth century were Descartes, who was French; Spinoza, who was Dutch; and Leibniz, who was German.†
Chpt 20

Locke believed—just like Descartes and Spinoza— that the material world is a reality.†
Chpt 22

He was familiar both with the rationalism of Descartes and Spinoza and the empiricism of Locke, Berkeley, and Hume.†
Chpt 24

At the same time we saw philosophers like the Stoics, for example, and Spinoza, who said that everything happens through the necessity of natural law.†
Chpt 24

It means viewing nature as a whole; the Romantics were tracing their roots not only back to Spinoza, but also to Plotinus and Renaissance philosophers like Jakob Bohme and Giordano Bruno.†
Chpt 25

Yes, just like Spinoza.†
Chpt 25

This was true of Descartes, Spinoza, Hume, and Kant.†
Chpt 26

He reacted against the idealistic philosophy of Spinoza just as Kierkegaard reacted against Hegel.†
Chpt 27

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(1) (Baruch Spinoza)
Dutch philosopher of the early Enlightenment (1632-1677)
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
meaning too rare to warrant focus