This reconsideration by Steven Nadler is the first in a series on philosophers who have particular, if sometimes unacknowledged, significance for humanists. In responsibility, there is no. (Read more), Whats Actually Happening with Chemtrails? Spinoza is the first philosopher to write a systematic defense of democracy; it appears in his Theologico-Political Treatise, published in 1670. Although wishing to give the impression that their highbrow books buck the trend, in reality they preach to the You live in tumultuous times and you live in a time of fulfilment. in Philosophy from Hunter College/CUNY. And you may hear Voltaires jibes in Candide, aimed at Spinozas contemporary Leibniz, bouncing off Spinoza as well. Translated by Edwin Curley. In regard to intellect and true virtue, every nation is on a par with the rest, and God has not in these respects chosen one people rather than another. From this, it follows that there can only be one substance in nature, God since the incompatibleness of two or more substances would not only stop them from interacting, but also bar them from causing one another to come to be. 108 That is, by being without any inadequacies God cannot cause sadness, because his/her eternal activity can only exude true and adequate ideas. Hence, because God is not anthropomorphic, it follows that whatever changes occur in peoples bodies cannot change God, or Natures body, in any way. Express your joy! Moreover, with distorted views of reality, people cannot adequately understand their persistent sorrows, and it is tough to assuage the pains that follow from that state of being. Spinoza, Benedict De. In 1656, Spinoza was excommunicated. Further, it would be impossible for modes to come into existence at the same time as God because there can only be one cause-of-itself in nature. The Columbia History of Western Philosophy. 82. WebDescartes, whom Spinoza had studied and commentated, moves from the self and its ignorance to eventually apprehend the existence of God and to attain knowledge of the world. What did you learn?. 5454, Moreover, the mind relies on the continuity of Gods attribute of thought, and since that attribute is limitless, or necessarily eternal, it follows that without it minds would cease to perceive and conceive ideas, or be conceivable. Spinoza is the first philosopher to write a systematic defense of democracy; it appears in his Theologico-Political Treatise, published in 1670. Heres some of him. 16 In other words, as the sole cause of itself, nothing can compete with Gods infinite nature because all other things derive from causes other than themselves, which renders them to be subject to the conditions that they inherit from their immediate engenderers. WebSPINOZA, BENEDICT (BARUCH) DE (1632 1677). By that which causes itself, Spinoza means that God is the only being who does not derive from an external cause for his/her existence or an outside concept for his/her conceivability. 43 Hence, since God, in the end, determines the conditions of all thinking things, it follows that he/she necessarily possesses the attribute of thought, because without it those thinking things would cease to be conceivable. Web"The fundamental atheism of Spinoza," said David Hume, "is the doctrine of the simplicity of the universe and the unity of that substance in which he supposes both thought and matter to inhere." Furthermore, because people can know the difference between adequate and inadequate ideas, it is the case that they can understand those ideas that increase their abilities to think, or not, and thus, what can affect their bodies to strive more ably, or not, to live. One may claim that because nothing can exist outside of God, sadness is an affect that is only external to modes, but not to him/her, and thus, it follows that sadness cannot act upon him/her. That is, if God were not a corporeal substance, there would be no room for his/her modes to come to be, which is an impossibility since the reality of Nature necessarily provides space for his/her modes to exist. Moreover, because God is unlike all other bodies, it follows that he/she cannot have a body that resembles a finite body, including those of humans. Princeton: Penguin Books, 1996. That is, only God is an infinite substance, and since that renders all other things to be finite, nothing can cause him/her to change. Furthermore, God is immutable since he/she is not a conglomeration of substances, but rather an indivisible whole. 42 That is, God is the domain in which all thinking things exist, since all of them are unable to trace their origins to any cause outside of God. Spinoza concludes that because of this, God is only a partial cause of inadequate ideas whereas people, who can take in perceptions housed in him/her, are the other partial cause, and thus, they do not derive from people alone but can still act upon and influence them. Abstract. Im bored being praised. Rocco A. Astore, The New School for Social Research. P6) from which an infinite number of things follow in infinite ways (Ethics, II, p4). 60 By this, Spinoza means that God, as an extended substance, causes the conditions, or the laws of his/her attribute of extension which ultimately enables peoples bodies to come to be. Hence God must also exist in dimensions far beyond those of the visible world. WebFor Spinoza, the world just is God, and in some sense, all things are in God. WebAnswer (1 of 7): I can't definitely speak for him, but it's generally agreed he meant that the universe is governed by laws and that these consistently shape and define our 62 One reason why Spinoza believes this is that bodies are of the same nature since they derive from the same attribute of God, and thus, it is the case that they all agree or relate in certain ways. New York: Harvest Books, 1966. His masterwork, Ethics (published posthumously in 1677), is a bold Furthermore, inadequate ideas necessarily reside in God, like all other things, but they do not directly derive from him/her since those ideas are passive whereas he/she is immutably active. Spinoza is commonly (but not by all of his interpreters) assumed to be a pantheist, which means that since Nature or Substance are synonyms of God, God and Nature or Substance are identical. Indeed, Spinoza explicitly wrote that Whatever is, is in God, and nothing can be or be conceived without God and that all things are in God (1p17d). Stop going into those dark, cold temples that you built yourself and saying they are my house. Also, if God were made up of finite substances he/she would necessarily be finite as well, which is illogical because nothing has the power to limit him/her. That is, sadness disrupts peoples abilities to exist because it causes them to less aware of themselves. Respect your peers and dont do what you dont want for yourself. That gateway is open and you are being flooded and you are being assisted and you will be assisted every step of the way. She begins: Benedict de Spinoza did not have a religionat least in the usual sense of the word (1). 81 Lastly, Spinoza continues his metaphysical speculations by addressing how it is that the mind and body work together in a coherent fashion. This piece has explained Spinozas views on the nature of God, his/her attributes, and the modes that ultimately arise from him/her. Throughout the history of philosophy, many theorists have attempted to explain the meaning and cause of peoples sorrows. 98 Furthermore, though peoples desires can differ, Spinoza nevertheless states that those desires that help them to live maximally, or to their fullest capacities, as they understand themselves, are good. My house is in the mountains, in the woods, rivers, lakes, beaches. Part 4/8, https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Dr.-David-Martin-MURDER-CHARGES-Against-Fauci-Peter-Daszak-Ralph-Baric-and-many-others.mp4, https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/LEAKED-22Project-Pandora22-Multiple-Presidents-KILLED-to-Keep-this-HIDDEN.mp4, https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Cities-across-Canada-join-the-movement-1.mp4, https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/telegram-cloud-document-1-4915997293301204030-1-1.mp4. Accor ding to the standar d vie w, Spinoza s ter m mode denotes pr oper ties of substance, just as it does in Descartes idiom. What would God have said, according to Spinozas views? Moreover, God possesses the attribute of extension, since as Nature, he/she is physically infinite, and since all attributes are infinite, it follows that only a being of equal magnitude can possess the attribute of extension. Spinoza makes a similar reference when he states that God as an idea is like the idea of a circle that matches the reality of a circle universally. Do you think I could create a place to burn all my children who behave badly for the rest of eternity? We have already described some of the essential properties of God, as Spinoza conceives of it. 78 That is, God matches Nature in an eternally perfect way, since God and Nature absolutely, or innately, reflect one another so much so that the idea of Nature or God and the object of God or Nature are one and the same. You are absolutely free to create in your life. Finally, Spinoza explains how it is unlike anything to come before God. 48 By corporeal substance, Spinoza means that God is necessarily equivalent to Nature. But thats why secularist readers (Nadler among them) have always seen Spinozas God as a thin disguise for an orderly, perhaps awe-inspiring, but purposeless and indifferent nature. https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SuzanneMaresca. I have set you absolutely free, no prizes or punishments, no sins or virtues, no one carries a marker, no one keeps a record. And why were less interested now in Spinozas logic than in his peace of mind. 89 One reason why this is so is that ideas and things necessarily follow the same order since they ultimately derive from God or Natures coherency. That is, to Spinoza, God cannot defy who he/she is since it is not in his/her ability to do so. WebThis is the nature of the God of Spinoza: God would have said: Stop praying and giving yourselves blows on your chests, what I want you to do is to go out into the world to enjoy Spinoza calls the state of mind associated with sadness, melancholy, and its matching physical effect, pain. 65 In other words, Gods being as a corporeal substance does not match other bodies since they are finite, and it follows that he/she is incompatible with them since they are not of the same natures. 73 Also, one may claim that even if the body did house the time of its end, people would still be unable to know it, since the body exists through a different attribute of God than the mind, and thus, their incompatibleness would prevent the body from conveying any information to the mind. Spinoza used the provocative formulation Deus sive naturaGod, or naturebut he actually regarded nature as just the visible, comprehensible aspect of Gods infinite, incomprehensible being. Spinoza presents God as conscious being with a mind that possesses an infinite, or unlimited intellect and an awareness of everything that exists. How can I punish you for being the way you are, if Im the one who made you? Stop reading alleged sacred scriptures that have nothing to do with me. Philosophers that are significant to him and his studies are Parmenides, Plato, Plotinus, Descartes, Spinoza, Kant, and Hegel. 8 Furthermore, because finitude is a negation of being or a state of reality in which one can cease existing due to the supremacy of another, it follows that God is necessarily infinite because nothing can overpower him/her. WebBENEDICT SPINOZA. 37 From this, one may claim that modes cannot exist outside of God because, for something to exist outside of something else, it must precede it. In other words, modes cannot come to be by themselves, and thus, their natures derive from a series of causes that ultimately leads back to the attribute of God from which they arose. Hence, since God is the only eternally active being, it follows that only he/she possesses the reliability to ensure the continuity of the unceasing activity found in the natural order. Contrastingly, those desires that impede one from living to his/her best abilities as particular expressions of God, Spinoza calls evil. The Tractatus, Nadler points out, is a more readable and urgent book than his posthumously published magnum opus, the Ethics, with its rigorously Euclidean, axiomatic format, but the books have a common aim: liberation from bondage, whether psychological, political, or religious.. Spinoza demonstrates this by first showing how nothing can come before God. In other words, because the mind and body concur, it follows that what negatively affects the minds awareness of itself, must also affect the bodys ability to act. He shows how modern biblical criticism and the broad Enlightenment program for a secular, scientific society were effectively launched in the book. WebAnswer (1 of 5): I have never studied Spinoza's philosophy in detail, nor can I even read Latin, but I have always understood Spinoza's concept of God to be of the same flavor Stop believing in me; believing is assuming, guessing, imagining. There is, after all, that famous chapter head in the Ethics, Of human bondage, or the strength of the emotions. In the Tractatus Spinoza compares the arbitrary divine power exercised in the Bible to the rule of some royal potentate. He wants to liberate us from a heavenly despot whom we abjectly petition for miraculous favors or reprieves, from clerics who claim to be his agents and intermediaries, and from the powerful and capricious emotions, especially hope and fear, that those clerics exploit. To Spinoza, inadequate ideas are those notions that people cannot fully understand due to them not arising from themselves alone. Spinoza on Human Freedom closes on a high note, with a strong chapter that examines how the state can contribute to the freedom or autonomy of the individual. That is, the mind is a thinking expression of God, as an immaterial substance, and since it does so in a determinate or limited way, it follows that it cannot have attributes since attributes are infinite and eternal. 17. Seeking information is Light Work. 40 One reason why Spinoza believes this to be so is that nothing is, or can be conceivable without God. WebTo Spinoza attributes of God or that which one can perceive as being of his/her nature, are eternal and infinite. 11 To Spinoza, God is unchanging since nothing can alter him/her due to only him/her being limitless. Lastly, Spinoza comes to claim that though God ultimately causes all things, he/she is not the cause of sadness, which, in turn, maintains his/her perfection. in Liberal Studies from the College of Staten Island/CUNY and his B.A. Given this, she admits, the title of this book contains an irony, and perhaps for some a provocation (2). I do not judge you or criticize you, nor get angry, or bothered. I believe that a triangle, if it could speak, would say that God is eminently triangular, and a circle that the divine nature is eminently circular; and thus would every one ascribe his own attributes to God. Feeling grateful? God is the efficient cause not only of the existence of things, but also of their essence. 4 That is, Spinoza believes if people were to try to perceive two or more substances of the same essence and attributes they would be unable to do so since there would be no differentiating characteristics between them that anyone can acknowledge as belonging to either one of them exclusively. Dutch Jewish philosopher Benedict de Spinoza was best known for his Ethics (1677), which laid out in geometric form arguments for the existence of an impersonal God, the identity of mind and body, determinism, and a way of overcoming the dominance of the passions and achieving freedom and First, Spinoza states that those who believe in free will are mistaken in their belief that the body does not move unless the mind is active. 100, VI. The rabbi cabled him in 1929 to ask him if he believed in God. Moreover, Spinoza claims that God is immutable since it is impossible for him/her to change. Web1. This universe is designed around the pattern of the Divine Mother. He who loves God cannot endeavor that God should love him in return. Stop praising me. What kind of egomaniac God do you think I am? I believe in Spinozas God, who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God who concerns Himself with the fate and the doings of mankind. Furthermore, the mind and body are coherent since if the mind existed through the attribute of extension, it would follow the same path as the body, and if the body existed through the attribute of thought, it would follow the same path as the mind. And Im so focused. Gods perfection gives all things existence as well as essence (Spinoza, 1985, p. 87) . 23 In other words, God cannot defy his/her nature because by being eternally active all existence ultimately depends on him/her, and since being can never truly fade into nothingness, it follows that God cannot change his/her ceaselessly active nature. What follows from Spinozas philosophical theology is that 114. Information is Light. 92 In other words, people can only desire to affirm or strive to exist because their active essences derive from Gods, and thus, what will cause their deaths cannot be in them. Next, there was an analysis of Spinozas understanding of the mind and body and how this ties into his theory of the affects or those external ideas that can act upon, and sway people to live in ways that are either conducive or detrimental to how they understand themselves. One reason why the mind necessarily derives from Gods attribute of thought is that it is of the same nature as it. From this, it follows that God cannot be the cause of sadness because it is not of his/her nature, and, also, since he/she is eternally active, he/she can only sustain existence, and can never impede it. In some texts, Leibniz locates the source of contingency purely in Gods choice of the best, which cannot be demonstrated. The best introduction to the subject in recent memory. All I ask is that you pay attention in your life, that alertness is your guide. 7777 One way in which the reader can imagine this is if God were both the idea of a shape and the physical object of that shape itself. Its clear what Spinozas God is not. N ear the beginning of The Family Moskat, Isaac Bashevis Singer introduces us to a young man from a distinguished rabbinic family named Asa Heschel Bannet: At five he Einstein replied, I believe in Spinozas God, who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fates and actions of human beings.. That is, there is a likeness between the immateriality of the mind and the intelligible features of the natural order, which Gods attribute of thought gives rise to, and since only things of the same kind are compatible, it follows that minds necessarily arise from that attribute due to them both being immaterial. Spinoza was born in Amsterdam in the 17th century of a businessman father who was successful but not wealthy. Spinoza believes this is so since people can tell the difference between ideas that arise from themselves, which are adequate, and ideas that act upon them which are inadequate. 112 That is, Gods essence is totally active, at all times, since it is innate of him/her to be so, and thus, inadequate ideas cannot follow from him/her. Beloved ones, do not allow yourselves to be distracted, yes, by the chaos. 25 Spinoza makes this claim because God as an eternal and infinite Our recommendations on other lightworker sites. And if there is no truth, there will not be peace and [peace], Sweet One, is the Plan. (Archangel Michael, Personal Reading, June 17, 2020. I do not believe anyone has reached such perfection, surpassing all others, except Christ, to whom God immediately revealed without words or visions the conditions which lead to salvation. WebNo he warned against people (esp. Spinozas Metaphysics: Substance and Thought. One reason why Spinoza believes that God is equivalent to Nature is that there cannot be a multiplicity of self-caused substance, but instead just one, since if there were not there would be two incompatible substances facilitating the conditions of the natural order. WebTherefore, Spinoza argues that the only substance is God (Ethics, II. Now it is evident, from the definition above given, that prophecy really includes ordinary knowledge; for the knowledge which we acquire by our natural faculties depends on our knowledge of God and his eternal laws; but ordinary knowledge is common to all men as men, and rests on foundations which all share, whereas the multitude always strains after rarities and exceptions, and thinks little of the gifts of nature ; so that, when prophecy is talked of, ordinary knowledge is not supposed to be included. Orlando, Florida, 32816 | 407.823.2000 12 To Spinoza, neither infinite nor finite substances can compose God since it is impossible for either to exist. Spinoza continues to state that joy is a persons passage from a lesser state of being to a greater one. Spinoza's ethical views are deeply tied to his metaphysical system. This is evident from the following claim: As far as good and evil are concerned, they also indicate nothing positive in things, considered in themselves, nor are they anything other than modes of thinking, or notions we form because we compare things to one another.(E4, Preface) It is also apparent from this that he is a kind Sex is a gift I have given you and with which you can express your love, your ecstasy, your joy. 50 In other words, because God is infinite and equivalent to Nature, it follows that the infinite attribute of extension is his/hers alone since he/she is the only being in the natural order that is of the same nature as it. 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