PHILOS 25B Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Baruch Spinoza
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This x is f: aua - i can recognize/be aware of all of my (individual) representations as mine, causal connections, rationalists a. i. a. ii. Leibniz: principle of sufficient reason: empiricists b. i. Hume: we are never justified in asserting every event has a cause because no impression of a causal connection is given: kant: c. i. Every event has a cause is true within space and time c. i. 1. Spinoza is trying to describe (god) things outside of space and time with his axiom c. i. 1. a. Hume is right that no impression of a causal connection is given in experience c. ii. Opponent explain x (more problematic) in terms of y (less problematic) c. ii. 2. Hume: explain awareness of causal connection in terms of awareness of constant conjunction c. ii. 2. b. Kant: awareness of constant conjunction presupposes awareness of causal connections. c. ii. 2. b. i. All perception is successive c. ii. 2. b. i. 1. experience a change/event - order is of our perceptions is necessary (boat) c. ii. 2. b. i. 1. a. necessary connection is already involved c. ii. 2. b. i. 1. b.
