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.
Statements (61)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ethical system
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metaphysical system → philosophical doctrine → |
| affirms |
everything follows from the necessity of the divine nature
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strict determinism → |
| aimsAt |
blessedness
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freedom through understanding necessity → |
| classifies |
emotions as affects
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| definesFreedomAs |
acting from the necessity of one’s own nature
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| definesGodAs |
absolutely infinite being
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| emphasizes |
geometrical method in philosophy
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rational understanding of reality → |
| hasCentralFigure |
Baruch Spinoza
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| hasConcept |
adequate idea
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attribute → conatus → intellectual love of God → mode → parallelism of mind and body → substance → |
| hasCoreWork |
Ethics
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Tractatus Politicus → Tractatus Theologico-Politicus → |
| hasEthicalGoal |
achieving active joy
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overcoming passive affects → |
| hasMetaphysicalView |
substance monism
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| hasPoliticalDimension |
critique of religious authority in politics
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defense of freedom of thought → |
| hasViewOnMindBody |
mind–body parallelism
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| historicalPeriod |
Early Modern philosophy
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| holds |
God has infinitely many attributes
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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
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| influenced |
Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi
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Friedrich Nietzsche → 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
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| isSometimesInterpretedAs |
acosmism
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panentheism → |
| locatesHighestGoodIn |
intellectual love of God
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| namedAfter |
Baruch Spinoza
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| originatedIn |
17th century Netherlands
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| rejects |
Cartesian dualism
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final causes in nature → free will in the libertarian sense → |
| teaches |
there is only one substance
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| usesMethod |
more geometrico
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| usesTerm |
Deus sive Natura
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| wasAccusedOf |
atheism in the 17th and 18th centuries
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Referenced by (2)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
|---|---|
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Deus sive Natura
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associatedSchool |
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Short Treatise on God, Man and His Well-Being
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authorPhilosophicalSchool |