PHILOS 25B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Natura Naturans, Natura Naturata
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Axioms: there are only substances and affections, affections are properties of substances (modes) or of further modes - only substances have modes, that which cannot be conceived through another thing must be conceived through itself. If one cannot explain/grasp something through something else, then one must be able to explain it through itself a: everything has a cause/explanation. The relation between cause and effect is a necessary one: to fully understand the effect, i must fully understand its cause, things that have nothing in common cannot be used to explain each other. God = nature: active nature, natura naturans a. i. nature naturing a. i. 1.
