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Baruch Spinoza
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Spinoza, the 'prince of philosophers], was a great 17th century rationalist, who wrote 'Ethics' and said that God exists and is abstract and impersonal.

Baruch Spinoza
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1. Properties Of The Substance - Make It What It Is. Intellect Perceives Attributes Of A Substance As Constituting It's Existence

2. Two Basic Kinds Of Things In The World

3. The Individuality Of Finite Things

4. Everything Wants To Endeavor In Its Own Being. An Animal Will Try To Not Get Hurt. This Is Nothing But The Essence Of Beings And Lets Us Speak Of Them Like They Were Substances.

5. Does Spinoza Think That Ideas Are Active?

6. Individual Instantiations Of These Attributes | Ex: Specific Trees - Mountains - Frogs - Cats

7. Why He Thinks There Is One Original Substance

8. God

9. Something That Cannot Exsist Independetly Without That Which It Depends On

10. Epistemological Problem For Dualism

11. Substance Is Defined As

12. The Mind/Body Problem

13. Nature

14. Propositions And Corollaries

15. First Part

16. What Does Spinoza Have To Say On The Correlation Between Mind And Body?

17. Prop 5

18. All Final Causes Are Nothing But _____

19. Determinism

20. Humans Have Active And Passive Emotions: 1. Passive Emotions→ Fear And Anger- These Are Created By Outside Forces | 2. Active Emotions → Intellectual Love Of God. This Comes From Intellectual Contemplation And A Realization Of The Necessity Of All Things - We Do Not Hold Anger Against Other People Because We Realize That Their Actions Are Completely Necessitated

21. (Preface) Every Aspect Of Reality Is Conceivable

22. Axioms

23. Words Assosciated With Inadequate Knowledge

24. Spinoza Is Concerned With ________

25. Influences And Motivation