PHIL 1175 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Hamartia, Solipsism, Baruch Spinoza
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Evil: natural evil - (corruption of goodness in body parts - blindness, deafness, moral evil - lie in the power of choice (murder, robbery, assault) Hobbes: eternal law/divine law (good comes from god, state of nature - before civil society. No trade or organization with others (can"t trust anyone) Terms: morality - defined by the laws the sovereign makes, cultural relativism - basing cultures, subjectivism - each person has their own sense of morality. Opinions/actions should be based on reason and knowledge rather than religious belief or emotional response. Leibniz: monadology - everything that exists is comprised of monads (infinitely small period of being) They come together for a period of time to construct an object/being, but then disperse. Question: how do they come together and how do they stay together to constitute a person, place, etc. He states that the only way they could be held together is by the power of the holy spirit of god.
