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Modern Philosophy. Part two. Baruch Spinoza. Background Early years The road to excommunication Lenses & philosophy Works. Spinoza: Goals & Methods. Goal: Freedom Ethics Method Ethics Foundation Assumptions. Spinoza: Epistemology. Truth Necessity Appearance of contingency Ideas
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Modern Philosophy Part two
Baruch Spinoza • Background • Early years • The road to excommunication • Lenses & philosophy • Works
Spinoza: Goals & Methods • Goal: Freedom • Ethics • Method • Ethics • Foundation • Assumptions
Spinoza: Epistemology • Truth • Necessity • Appearance of contingency • Ideas • Opinion/Imagination • Reason • Intuition
Spinoza: Metaphysics • Substance • Defining substance • Infinity • Defining God • Ontological Argument for God’s existence • God • Argument for one substance • Pantheism • Is God a Person
Spinoza: Metaphysics • Atheist or Mystic • Labels • False Dilemma • Freedom & necessity • Apparent contradiction • Creation & Necessity • Two types of events • Free Will
Spinoza: Metaphysics • Mind-Body problem • God’s attributes • Mind-Body
Spinoza: Ethics • Freedom • Overview • Method • Self Preservation • Self-awareness • The Mind • Comprehensive understanding
Spinoza: Ethics • Good & Evil • Good & Evil • Self-preservation • Love & Immortality • Intellectual love of God • Immortality
Spinoza: Criticism/Impact • Conclusion • The Wise man • Criticism • Desirable • Coherent • Impact • Impact • 18th Century • 19th Century • 20th Century
Leibniz: Background • German Culture • Stagnant • Background for Leibniz • Early years • Professional career • Diplomacy • Works
Leibniz: Goal & Method • Goal • Unified • Logical Method • Logic • Method • Application of the method • Assumptions
Leibniz: Epistemology • Innate Ideas • Against Locke • The Mind • Against the empiricists
Leibniz: EpistemologyNecessity & Contingency • Truths of Reason & Truths of Fact • Truths of reason • Truths of fact • Necessary & contingent truths • Deduction
Leibniz: MetaphysicsGod • God • Proofs for God’s existence • Proof of God’s existence by possibility & necessity • God • Perfection • Existence • Cosmological Argument • Two principles • Two kinds of truth • Sufficient Reason • God
Leibniz: MetaphysicsProblem of Evil • Best of All Possible Worlds • The best world • God’s choice • Diversity • No Better Possible World • Intellectualist view • The Problem & Reply • The Best • Denial of pantheism
Leibniz: MetaphysicsProblem of Evil • Evil as Privation • The question • Origin of evil-the ancients • Origin of evil-intellectualist view • Understanding & necessity • Analogy of the Boats • Boats • The Analogy • Defects
Leibniz: MetaphysicsMetaphysical Points • Problems & Solutions • Introduction • Problems with Cartesian matter • Problems with Spinoza • Rejection of materialism • Phenomenology • Metaphysical Points
Leibniz: MetaphysicsMonads • Nature of Monads • Introduction • Minds • Perception • Continuity • The identity of indiscernibles
Leibniz: MetaphysicsMonads • Windowless Monads • Windowless • Pre-Established harmony • Inner World • One World • Space & Time • Extended Things • Space & Time
Leibniz: MetaphysicsMonads • Mind-Body Problem • Bodies • Interaction • Teleology & Mechanism • Reconciliation • Two Realms • Freedom & Determinism • Freedom • Compatibilism
Leibniz: MetaphysicsMonads • The City of God • Souls • Why did God create the world? • Harmony, reward & punishment • Machinery of Justice
Leibniz: MetaphysicsProblems & Impact • Problems • The best of all possible worlds • Freedom • Collapse to Spinoza • Impact • Dominant • Lost potential • Universal, logically perfect language