Spinoza, Ethics, Part I
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"Spinoza, Ethics, Part I" is the opening section of Baruch Spinoza’s philosophical masterpiece in which he lays out his rigorous, geometrically structured metaphysics, including his identification of God with Nature.
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philosophical work section
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Baruch Spinoza
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God is identical with Nature
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God or Nature is the one substance → substance monism → there is only one substance → |
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God
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attribute → cause of itself → eternity → free cause → mode → substance → |
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Ethics, Part I: Of God
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axioms
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corollaries → definitions → demonstrations → postulates → propositions → scholia → |
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Ethics, Part I
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German Idealism
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Romanticism → modern metaphysics → pantheism → |
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Latin
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attributes
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determinism → metaphysics → modes → necessity → ontology → philosophy of God → substance → |
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Ethica, Pars I
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Ethica, ordine geometrico demonstrata, Pars I → |
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Ethics
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God is the immanent cause of all things
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denial of a transcendent creator distinct from Nature → everything follows from the necessity of the divine nature → nothing exists nor can be conceived without God → rejection of anthropomorphic conceptions of God → rejection of final causes in nature → |
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early modern philosophy
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rationalism → |
| relatedWork |
Spinoza, Ethics, Part II
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Spinoza, Ethics, Part III → Spinoza, Ethics, Part IV → Spinoza, Ethics, Part V → |
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17th century
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geometrical method
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Principles of Cartesian Philosophy
("Ethics (Spinoza)")
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Principles of Cartesian Philosophy
("Ethics (Spinoza)")
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Tractatus Politicus
("Baruch Spinoza's Ethics")
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Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect
("Ethics (Spinoza)")
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Deus sive Natura
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