Search results
4 days ago · The Ethics of Benedict de Spinoza, Translated by George Eliot, ed. Thomas Deegan Institut fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Salzburg, Austria, 1981, Print.
2 days ago · Baruch Spinoza is one of the most influential and controversial figures of the 17th century. His radical views on the nature of God and organized religion made him lead a life of extreme, and at times life-threatening, social censure. In an endless battle for freedom of expression, Spinoza lived as an outcast, his philosophy born behind closed ...
4 days ago · Though Spinoza owes his position in the history of philosophy to his Ethica (1677), Spinoza’s contemporaries knew him virtually only as the author of the infamous Tractatus Theologico-Politicus. The book was an intervention in the political debates of the period.
3 days ago · Pantheism was popularized in Western culture as a theology and philosophy based on the work of the 17th-century philosopher Baruch Spinoza, in particular, his book Ethics. A pantheistic stance was also taken in the 16th century by philosopher and cosmologist Giordano Bruno.
2 days ago · Christianity - Obeying Truth, Morality, Ethics: Christians acknowledge not only a duty to announce the gospel, profess the faith, and worship God but also to live their entire lives according to God’s will.
The 20th century marks a decisive break with absolutism. In the first half of the century, panentheism gained in authority. The position of the Russian ex-Marxist Nikolay Berdyayev, a religious metaphysician, with his emphasis on divine and human freedom, is a manifesto of panentheism.
1 day ago · This view was espoused by the 17th-century rationalist Baruch Spinoza. Physicalists argue that only entities postulated by physical theory exist, and that mental processes will eventually be explained in terms of these entities as physical theory continues to evolve.
