HON 2010C Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Unmoved Mover, Bundle Theory, Baruch Spinoza
29 Sep 2018
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When thinking of metaphysics, never forget that you exist in all the craziness. We are all made of the same star stuff. Spinoza: infinite 1: radical monism - goes back to the source argument that god, the divine is in everything - because everything comes from the same source. 2: predates degrasse tyson, karl sager(??, everything is in god and god is in everything. Empiricists - locke, hume, berkeley: still use reason to reason experiential data. Loux outline: multiple world theory, focuses on hume, locke, berkeley, and mill, compares trope theory (related to mills bundle theory) and anti-essentialism, ch. 7 - nature of time (kant, locke relationship to self: a theory, b theory, new b theory, ch. Indiscernables: an objection to bundle theory b, an entire section on aristotelian substances - trying to move the unmoved mover. Divine meaning, beyond anything you know and what you can do. Divine being: objects in reality, persistence in time, looks back at ch.
