PHIL384 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Baruch Spinoza, Conatus, Super Bowl Xxxii
16 Mar 2016
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Part one: spinoza"s aims: the search for intellectual salvation: see e. g. p. 340, 341, 344, 406. Quotations on the geometry of the emotions: 263. cf. Locke, p. 94: reaction to descartes, the problem of the infinite divisibility of finite magnitudes. 11 and berkeley, lecture 17: the relation between god and the world, the relation between mind and body. 380-381: problems of the will, god. eternal truths, pp. Part two: spinoza"s metaphysical system: substance: for descartes" definition, see lecture 5. Substance = god, p. 185: attributes: definition, p. 179. The intellect referred to is presumably god"s intellect: cf: 220, prop. X. infinitely many: p. 185: modes: definition, p. 179, infinite: immediate and mediate, p. 199, prop. Phil 384 lecture notes 36: finite: pp. Xxviii: cause and effect. p. 180, axioms iii, iv, v. the deductive-nomological model of causal explanation looks like this, under conditions x, y, z, b will occur. (law of nature), conditions x, y, z do obtain.
