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Modern PhilosophyPART TWO
Baruch Spinoza
Background Early years
The road to excommunication
Lenses & philosophy
Works
Spinoza: Goals & Methods
Goal: Freedom Ethics
Method Ethics
Foundation
Assumptions
Spinoza: Epistemology
Truth Necessity
Appearance of contingency
Ideas
Opinion/Imagination
Reason
Intuition
Spinoza: Metaphysics
Substance Defining substance
Infinity
Defining God
Ontological Argument for God’s existence
God
Argument for one substance
Pantheism
Is God a Person
Spinoza: Metaphysics
Atheist or Mystic Labels
False Dilemma
Freedom & necessity Apparent contradiction
Creation & Necessity
Two types of events
Free Will
Spinoza: Metaphysics
Mind-Body problem God’s attributes
Mind-Body
Spinoza: Ethics
Freedom Overview
Method
Self Preservation
Self-awareness
The Mind
Comprehensive understanding
Spinoza: Ethics
Good & Evil Good & Evil
Self-preservation
Love & Immortality Intellectual love of God
Immortality
Spinoza: Criticism/Impact
Conclusion The Wise man
Criticism Desirable
Coherent
Impact Impact
18th Century
19th Century
20th Century
Leibniz: Background
German Culture Stagnant
Background for Leibniz Early years
Professional career
Diplomacy
Works
Leibniz: Goal & Method
Goal Unified
Logical Method Logic
Method
Application of the method
Assumptions
Leibniz: Epistemology
Innate Ideas Against Locke
The Mind
Against the empiricists
Leibniz: EpistemologyNecessity & Contingency
Truths of Reason & Truths of Fact Truths of reason
Truths of fact
Necessary & contingent truths
Deduction
Leibniz: MetaphysicsGod
God Proofs for God’s existence
Proof of God’s existence by possibility & necessity God
Perfection
Existence
Cosmological Argument Two principles
Two kinds of truth
Sufficient Reason
God
Leibniz: MetaphysicsProblem of Evil
Best of All Possible Worlds The best world
God’s choice
Diversity
No Better Possible World Intellectualist view
The Problem & Reply
The Best
Denial of pantheism
Leibniz: MetaphysicsProblem of Evil
Evil as Privation The question
Origin of evil-the ancients
Origin of evil-intellectualist view
Understanding & necessity
Analogy of the Boats Boats
The Analogy
Defects
Leibniz: MetaphysicsMetaphysical Points
Problems & Solutions Introduction
Problems with Cartesian matter
Problems with Spinoza
Rejection of materialism
Phenomenology
Metaphysical Points
Leibniz: MetaphysicsMonads
Nature of Monads Introduction
Minds
Perception
Continuity
The identity of indiscernibles
Leibniz: MetaphysicsMonads
Windowless Monads Windowless
Pre-Established harmony Inner World
One World
Space & Time Extended Things
Space & Time
Leibniz: MetaphysicsMonads
Mind-Body Problem Bodies
Interaction
Teleology & Mechanism Reconciliation
Two Realms
Freedom & Determinism Freedom
Compatibilism
Leibniz: MetaphysicsMonads
The City of God Souls
Why did God create the world?
Harmony, reward & punishment
Machinery of Justice
Leibniz: MetaphysicsProblems & Impact
Problems The best of all possible worlds
Freedom
Collapse to Spinoza
Impact Dominant
Lost potential
Universal, logically perfect language