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.


Statements (53)
Predicate Object
instanceOf philosophical work section
text
author Baruch Spinoza
centralDoctrine God is identical with Nature
God or Nature is the one substance
substance monism
there is only one substance
definesConcept God
attribute
cause of itself
eternity
free cause
mode
substance
hasAlternativeTitle Ethics, Part I: Of God
hasStructure axioms
corollaries
definitions
demonstrations
postulates
propositions
scholia
hasTitle Ethics, Part I
influenced German Idealism
Romanticism
modern metaphysics
pantheism
language Latin
mainTopic attributes
determinism
metaphysics
modes
necessity
ontology
philosophy of God
substance
originalTitle Ethica, Pars I
Ethica, ordine geometrico demonstrata, Pars I
partOf Ethics
philosophicalPosition God is the immanent cause of all things
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
philosophicalTradition early modern philosophy
rationalism
relatedWork Spinoza, Ethics, Part II
Spinoza, Ethics, Part III
Spinoza, Ethics, Part IV
Spinoza, Ethics, Part V
timePeriod 17th century
usesMethod geometrical method

Referenced by (5)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Principles of Cartesian Philosophy ("Ethics (Spinoza)")
anticipates
Principles of Cartesian Philosophy ("Ethics (Spinoza)")
influenced
Tractatus Politicus ("Baruch Spinoza's Ethics")
influencedBy
Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect ("Ethics (Spinoza)")
relatedWork
Deus sive Natura
sourceTextSection

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