PHILOS 2XX3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Baruch Spinoza
13 Jan 2017
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So far clarke has prepared audience/reader for these reflections. Clarke"s assu(cid:373)ptio(cid:374): e(cid:448)er(cid:455)o(cid:374)e agrees that (cid:449)orld (cid:449)ould (cid:271)e (cid:271)etter if there (cid:449)as a god the(cid:374) if there (cid:449)as(cid:374)"t. Both clarke and hobbes think an authority is necessary. Hobbes says scarce resources, so we must compete: therefore need authority, to make us reasonable, state of nature. Clarke says must be supervening authority a god: ca(cid:374)"t i(cid:373)agi(cid:374)e a le(cid:448)iatho(cid:374, tries to demonstrate the reasons why everyone must agree. Because you remain on the level of the finite: want to know the original cause, looking for cause of what is now. Two concepts: something that has always existed, cause finite things. Difficult to understand because there are two types of explanations: either appeal to finite or appeal to infinite. Difficulty arises because we try to treat something infinite as finite: we (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t per(cid:272)ei(cid:448)e it, or see it, bring to bear the measure of finitude on something that cannot be so regarded.
