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B. Method
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clear and distinct idea is true. …the order and
connection of ideas is the same as the order
and connection of things.”
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any event, Spinoza’s thought revolves around the
concept of substance and attributes.
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Spinoza saw two attributes as different
modes of a single substance.
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granted, but all things are determined by the
necessity of divine nature for existing and
working in a certain way.”
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causes but with the essences of things, offered
to men another standard of truth.”
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level, but now we see them as part of the whole
scheme of the universe. When we reach this level
we become more and more conscious of God and
hence, “more perfect and blessed” for through this
vision we grasp the whole system of Nature and see
our place in it.”
F. Ethics
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c. There is no intrinsic good or bad. We simply
call something good if we desire it and bad if
we dislike it.
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