POL 2108 Lecture Notes - Baruch Spinoza
27 Feb 2014
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Ex: a pen is falling due to an external cause, gravity. To him, nature is that can"t be explained due to an external cause. This would be hard to explain today, as anything in nature can be modified today. To him, everyone else prays to the wrong god. The 10 commandments are artificial = his problem with the church. He thinks only rules we have to obey in life are the laws of nature. The only way to access nature/god is through philosophy & reason. Laws of nature are hard to understand. We can find a several number of causes for anything in nature. Pol 2108 a - modern political thought i - guy c t - 10 feb. 06. Nature transcends humans, but we live with it. Nature is an infinite and eternal substance. They both think we need math to understand nature. We both get our powers from nature and the powers are thus also limited by it.
