Spinozism
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Spinozism is the philosophical system of Baruch Spinoza, characterized by a strict monism in which God and Nature are identified as a single infinite substance governed by rational, necessary laws.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Spinozism canonical | 5 |
Statements (61)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ethical system
ⓘ
metaphysical system ⓘ philosophical doctrine ⓘ |
| affirms |
everything follows from the necessity of the divine nature
ⓘ
strict determinism ⓘ |
| aimsAt |
blessedness
ⓘ
freedom through understanding necessity ⓘ |
| classifies | emotions as affects ⓘ |
| definesFreedomAs | acting from the necessity of one’s own nature ⓘ |
| definesGodAs | absolutely infinite being ⓘ |
| emphasizes |
geometrical method in philosophy
ⓘ
rational understanding of reality ⓘ |
| hasCentralFigure | Baruch Spinoza ⓘ |
| hasConcept |
adequate idea
ⓘ
attribute ⓘ conatus ⓘ intellectual love of God ⓘ mode ⓘ parallelism of mind and body ⓘ substance ⓘ |
| hasCoreWork |
Ethics
ⓘ
Tractatus Politicus ⓘ Tractatus Theologico-Politicus ⓘ |
| hasEthicalGoal |
achieving active joy
ⓘ
overcoming passive affects ⓘ |
| hasMetaphysicalView | substance monism ⓘ |
| hasPoliticalDimension |
critique of religious authority in politics
ⓘ
defense of freedom of thought ⓘ |
| hasViewOnMindBody | mind–body parallelism ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | Early Modern philosophy ⓘ |
| holds |
God has infinitely many attributes
ⓘ
God or Nature is an infinite substance ⓘ adequate ideas increase human power of acting ⓘ everything that exists is in God ⓘ humans know only thought and extension as attributes ⓘ inadequate ideas are the source of bondage ⓘ modes are modifications of the one substance ⓘ |
| identifies | God with Nature ⓘ |
| influenced |
Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi
ⓘ
Friedrich Nietzsche ⓘ German idealism ⓘ
surface form:
German Idealism
Gilles Deleuze ⓘ Johann Gottfried Herder ⓘ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ⓘ Louis Althusser ⓘ Romanticism ⓘ contemporary analytic Spinoza scholarship ⓘ pantheism debates in the 18th century ⓘ |
| isOftenClassifiedAs | pantheism ⓘ |
| isSometimesInterpretedAs |
acosmism
ⓘ
panentheism ⓘ |
| locatesHighestGoodIn | intellectual love of God ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Baruch Spinoza ⓘ |
| originatedIn | 17th century Netherlands ⓘ |
| rejects |
Cartesianism
ⓘ
surface form:
Cartesian dualism
final causes in nature ⓘ free will in the libertarian sense ⓘ |
| teaches | there is only one substance ⓘ |
| usesMethod | more geometrico ⓘ |
| usesTerm | Deus sive Natura ⓘ |
| wasAccusedOf | atheism in the 17th and 18th centuries ⓘ |
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.