PHILOS 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Unmoved Mover, Baruch Spinoza, Xenophanes
22 Mar 2016
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Ethics (1677) - 5 parts, we"ll be reading sections from part 1 and 2. Agrees with descartes that it is time for a fresh start in metaphysics, but believes that. Descartes was too quick to ignore the past. Spinoza wants to include aristotle"s work while still adapting to the modern time. Deus sive nature (god or nature; god=nature) god is not above nature; rather, nature is god"s body. He was hated for his ideas about god and excommunicated from his synagogue. He was accused of being an atheist (not accepted during his time), although he denied this claim, and he discussed god at length in ethics. A god who appeals to rational thought, to philosophical thought; not to traditions of monotheistic religion/the bible. The unmoved mover (aristotle, metaphysics, book 12) is an example. See god not as a being with thought and unlike mortals. 3 proofs of the existence of god (proposition 11)
