Alexander CekalaA history of western philosophy 5
Today's post will outline the views of two famous 17th century rationalist philosophers:
Spinoza
Spinoza was another rationalist who said that god and nature were one and the same thing. This meant that god was part of the universe, and existed without a personality, rather than being above it.
He believed in determinism, the idea that everything is predetermined by the events that come before it. Spinoza was also an important ethicist and he claimed that ethics was relative, with objective good or bad not existing.
Leibniz
Leibniz was a rationalist, who is today famous for his law that two things are identical iff they share the same properties. He believed this world was the most perfect of all possible worlds, as god would not provide anything but the best alternative.
He also believed that much of human thought could be reduced to a system similar to symbolic logic. Leibniz had many achievements, too many to list here, and, aswell as Newton, he is believed to have developed calculus.
And that's it for today,
Adam
Spinoza
Spinoza was another rationalist who said that god and nature were one and the same thing. This meant that god was part of the universe, and existed without a personality, rather than being above it.
He believed in determinism, the idea that everything is predetermined by the events that come before it. Spinoza was also an important ethicist and he claimed that ethics was relative, with objective good or bad not existing.
Leibniz
Leibniz was a rationalist, who is today famous for his law that two things are identical iff they share the same properties. He believed this world was the most perfect of all possible worlds, as god would not provide anything but the best alternative.
He also believed that much of human thought could be reduced to a system similar to symbolic logic. Leibniz had many achievements, too many to list here, and, aswell as Newton, he is believed to have developed calculus.
And that's it for today,
Adam
