| 单词 | Spinoza |
| 例句 | Spinoza impressed me for a while when I found out that he was black. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The Jews read their burial services for Spinoza, meaning that he was dead as far as they were concerned; his family was run out of Spain, they ended up in Holland, I think. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z When he read the Spinoza aloud to himself the words had a rich, dark sound. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z His face resembled somewhat a picture of Spinoza. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z He settled himself at the table with his books by Spinoza and William Shakespeare and Karl Marx. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The interweaving of the personal and the philosophical in this excerpt is being used as an expository device, to help us understand the issues that Spinoza wrote about. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The voice of the great Spinoza and of Karl Marx. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Yet even the least acquaintance with the thought of Aristotle, Spinoza or Kant more than repays the effort. Review | A new book for ‘those who don’t want millions, but an answer to their questions’ 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z For Spinoza, being ethical doesn’t mean swearing never to buy another tchotchke. Lessons from the ancient philosophers to help improve our lives today 2020-02-15T05:00:00Z Many of the thinkers he surveys, from Lao Tzu and Aristotle to Montaigne and Spinoza, have tried to philosophize their way to tranquility, but no one has quite succeeded. Review | We’ve been looking to philosophers to make sense of life. Maybe we should be looking at cats instead. 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z According to Spinoza, religion emerged as a desperate attempt to ward off God’s wrath. This is your brain on religion: Uncovering the science of belief 2014-01-04T19:00:00Z He wrote "Descartes' Error" and "Looking for Spinoza," and both books are about the brain and how the brain works. Making "Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn" required a "banal" sex tape to test how we police each other 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z The biennial festival is still seen by many of Manchester’s residents as “a niche cultural product,” said Andy Spinoza, the author of the book “Manchester Unspun.” A New British Arts Venue Tracks Its City’s Changes 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z He found he could think best when peeling potatoes, likening it to Spinoza’s day job grinding lenses. Wittgenstein’s ‘Private Notebooks’ Shed Some Light on an Enigmatic Genius 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z Through even the craziest passages of “The Making of Zombie Wars,” Hemon stitches in allusions to Spinoza’s rationalist philosophy. ‘The Making of Zombie Wars’ goes beyond the undead 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z Among the strangest aspects is Joshua’s devotion to the work of 17th-century Dutch thinker Baruch Spinoza, whom he regards as “da man.” ‘The Making of Zombie Wars’ goes beyond the undead 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z “Because people have a sense of purpose, they assume that God, too, acts according to purpose,” Spinoza said. This is your brain on religion: Uncovering the science of belief 2014-01-04T19:00:00Z Ahead of the opening next week, the success of Aviva Studios is still up in the air, Spinoza said. A New British Arts Venue Tracks Its City’s Changes 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z To quote Baruch Spinoza "Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many." Is New York Too Expensive for Restaurateurs? We Do the Math 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z For the same reason, I read history books whether they are real or imaginative, such as recently “The Spinoza Problem,” by Irvin Yalom. The 1,328-Page Novel That Captivated the Primatologist Frans de Waal 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z By integrating the ideas of many of the world’s great thinkers—Aristotle, Aquinas, Augustine, Spinoza, and others—he has found “a third way, beyond atheism and religion, to the God of the modern world.” The Sage of Yale Law 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z As usual, Grafton presents largely unfamiliar material — his last essay looks at precursors to Spinoza’s rationalist approach to biblical interpretation — in a clear, even breezy style. Review | My nightstand runneth over: A proud nerd recommends new intellectual and cultural histories 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z Nor do they realise that, as the philosopher Spinoza put it: Sub specie aeternitatis, Villa’s relegation’s no big deal. 20 reasons to be cheerful in middle age 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z Often Mr. Taylor frames a work with a single quotation, be it from Spinoza, Whitman, Jung or whomever. Dance Review: Paul Taylor Offers a Vision of the World Through Mirrors and Illusions 2011-02-27T23:16:14Z If ambition is a species of madness, to quote Spinoza, then the troupe’s artistic director, Julie Kent, is indeed quite struck with folly, in a deeply interesting way. Review | Ambition and glamour in Washington Ballet’s ‘Balanchine, Ratmansky, Tharp’ 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z This intellectual survey considers the question through the work of writers like Spinoza, Hegel and Nietzsche. New in Paperback: ‘Unbelievable,’ ‘Improvement’ 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z Mr. Stewart argues that America’s founders drew inspiration not so much from Christianity and British political theory but rather from ancient pagan philosophers like Lucretius, and from Spinoza’s concept of natural divinity. National Book Awards Nominees, Nonfiction 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z It was also an age of Dutch enlightenment, the age of Rembrandt, Spinoza, Grotius and Huygens. The full story of the British empire is yet to be told 2012-12-28T19:31:12Z You might not really enjoy Spinoza’s Ethics, for instance, if you just picked it up randomly in a bookshop or in the library. Who was Nietzsche? 2012-10-01T11:45:00Z Neither foretold "Zombie Wars"; while peppered with musings of death, Spinoza and war, it is definitely lighter. Aleksandar Hemon's 'Zombie Wars' springs to humorous life unexpectedly 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z There’d be no point in giving them a systematic set of arguments like in Spinoza’s Ethics – in fact he ridicules the ‘geometric form’ of Spinoza’s in the first chapter of Beyond Good and Evil. Who was Nietzsche? 2012-10-01T11:45:00Z Spinoza’s work was controversial enough that he was condemned as an atheist not only by the Jewish community, but by both the Catholic Church and various Protestant churches as well. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z When asked to elaborate, he followed up with a six-page “mission statement” articulating the ideas and sources behind the works, citing Marcuse, Spinoza, Mondrian and more. Melted action figures, mushrooms, rotting French fries: Inside Max Hooper Schneider's 'feral' art 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z Consider, for example, the Sephardic Jew Baruch Spinoza, often cast as a Dutch philosopher. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z When he was asked seriously what he meant by that, he said he believed in the God of Spinoza, who identified God with reality, with God’s work. Q&A: Talking God, science and religion with theoretical physicist Frank Wilczek 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z “Jesus Christ ended up on a cross, right? Karl Marx was exiled. Spinoza exiled. Confucius, in effect, exiled.” How the ‘Homeless Billionaire’ Became a Philosopher King 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z He carried spiritualist, even monastic tendencies into his adulthood, and like his 17th-century compatriot, the rationalist philosopher Baruch Spinoza, he discerned a link between geometry and ethics. Perspective | There’s rhythm in this Piet Mondrian masterpiece. Is there also code? Such a framework was, in fact, proposed by the philosopher Baruch Spinoza, who identified God with nature. Experimental Tests of Theology 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z Or, even more on point, should Spinoza’s work be considered Jewish philosophy? Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z As I said, God to me is the God of Spinoza and Einstein, supplemented with the idea that we play a role in making him. Q&A: Talking God, science and religion with theoretical physicist Frank Wilczek 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z Or maybe the more diffuse God of Spinoza? Can Science Rule Out God? 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z Locke, as the historian Jonathan Israel has sketched out in a series of monumental books, was a key figure of the “mainstream” Enlightenment, while Spinoza was a guiding light of the “radical” wing. Why western liberals have long picked the wrong historical hero | Kenan Malik 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z But as in Bruno’s case, Spinoza’s ideas were denounced by the religious establishment. Experimental Tests of Theology 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z Maimonides presents a demythologized conception of the divine that influences later thinkers, Spinoza among them. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z A prosecutor has accused Baruch Spinoza and Albert Camus of being members of a terrorist organisation. ‘Police officers demanded to see my books’: Elif Shafak on Turkey's war on free-speech 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z As clarified by Spinoza, free will is real: it is the name we give to our own inner complexity, which is too rich for us to disentangle or predict. Carlo Rovelli: ‘Time travel is just what we do every day…’ 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z “The less freedom of judgment is granted to men,” Spinoza said,“the further are they removed from the most natural state and consequently the more repressive the regime.” Why western liberals have long picked the wrong historical hero | Kenan Malik 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z He spends his rare free moments reading Spinoza and walking in the woods near his house. He Helped Create A.I. Now, He Worries About ‘Killer Robots.’ 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z Spinoza aspired to this sort of transcendent happiness. Should Reality Make Us Glad or Sad? 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z “Every time he was asked if he believe in God, he answered cagily: ‘I believe in Spinoza’s god,’” she said, referring to Baruch Spinoza, a 17th-century Dutch thinker who drew from Jewish religion and history. Einstein’s ‘God Letter,’ a Viral Missive From 1954 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z Einstein answered, "I believe in Spinoza's God, who reveals himself in the lawful harmony of all that exists, but not in a God who concerns himself with the fate and the doings of mankind." Einstein's religious views on display at 2 New York auctions 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z But if we want to address questions of tolerance we would do far better to look to Spinoza than to Locke. Why western liberals have long picked the wrong historical hero | Kenan Malik 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z Einstein answered, “I believe in Spinoza’s God, who reveals himself in the lawful harmony of all that exists, but not in a God who concerns himself with the fate and the doings of mankind.” Einstein’s religious views on display at 2 New York auctions 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z But unlike Zedekiah, Spinoza equated God not with the emotional, judgmental, personal deity of the Bible but with the impersonal, rational order of nature. Should Reality Make Us Glad or Sad? 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z “If you say ‘I believe in Spinoza’s god,’ that’s already saying you don’t believe in what most people believe who believe in God believe. Einstein’s ‘God Letter,’ a Viral Missive From 1954 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z Their storied marriage of equals began with a two-year stint at Fort Sill, Okla., where they shared responsibility for child care and read to each other from Tolstoy and Spinoza. Review | A notorious advocate for gender equality 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z The Enlightenment thinker who adopted a truly liberal attitude towards toleration was not Locke but the Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza, whose work is far too little known, especially in the Anglophone world. Why western liberals have long picked the wrong historical hero | Kenan Malik 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z It was not unusual for the program notes for his works to feature literary quotations from the Bible, Dante, Shakespeare, Herrick, Spinoza, Blake, Whitman, Yeats, Neruda and other sources. Paul Taylor Dies at 88; Brought Poetry and Lyricism to Modern Dance 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z Baruch Spinoza, David Hume, Adam Smith and the French Encyclopédistes were “cognitive and social psychologists ahead of their time,” Pinker writes. Review | Buck up, everyone! We are riding along the Enlightenment’s long path of progress 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z SP You left off a crucial piece in framing the proposition, Philip — which comes from Spinoza. The Mind Meld of Bill Gates and Steven Pinker 2018-01-27T05:00:00Z Einstein’s readings of Baruch Spinoza and Ernst Mach had driven him toward theories that were objective, deterministic and, in principle, directly measurable for all components at all times by local observers. This Man Was Einstein and Bohr's Relationship Counselor 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z When it’s not Hegel he’s quoting, it’s Spinoza, who he loves for his struggle against the “sad passions” such as bitterness, resentment and defeatism – to which Macron himself seems to have had remarkably little exposure. Orbiting Jupiter: my week with Emmanuel Macron 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z The after-party was organized by the Jerusalem disc jockey Ram Spinoza, a.k.a. In Jerusalem, Looking for Peace in Backgammon and Music 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z Flowers, devotional candles and plastic-wrapped volumes of Spinoza and Hesse are piled on his grave, and a small photograph shows him speaking to a crowd, clutching a microphone, his face open and earnest. Why Was an Italian Graduate Student Tortured and Murdered in Egypt? 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z Inevitably, the Church's malign impact looms, notably over Galileo Galilei, Baruch Spinoza and heliocentrist Giordano Bruno, burned at the stake in 1600. Books in brief : Nature : Nature Research 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z “There is no ‘ourselves’ without God—no ‘thing’ without God,” Ben-Gurion replied, invoking Spinoza, slipping the trap. How the Six-Day War Changed Israel’s Mind 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z But as Spinoza once said about scripture, sometimes it’s better to study a text for its meaning, not its truth. Donald Trump's dizzying Time magazine interview was 'Trumpspeak' on display | Douglas Lawrence 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z Mr. Spinoza, who served in the Israeli Air Force, regularly holds his signature “Monolingua” parties in West Jerusalem’s alternative music venues, letting the music do the talking. In Jerusalem, Looking for Peace in Backgammon and Music 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z “For the doctrine of Election,” he said, “we have now a new genealogy: the Teacher of Righteousness, Paul, Spinoza, Calvin, Hegel, Marx—one of the most disastrous of human ideas, the doctrine of predestination!” The Scrolls from the Dead Sea 1955-05-06T04:00:00Z Spinoza’s vision, he now tells me, is that “all is indivisible”. John Berger: ‘If I’m a storyteller it’s because I listen’ 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z Better still, Mencken was introducing the young writer to a new world: Spinoza, Gustave Flaubert, Tolstoy, Mark Twain, Thomas Hardy, TS Eliot, and many more. 100 best nonfiction books: No 36 – Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth by Richard Wright (1945) 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z It is in this sense that Spinoza’s contemporaries called him an atheist: he made God unrecognizable. Are We Really So Modern? 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z This vitalism fit in well with the world view that Goethe had learned from Spinoza, who held that nature is God and God nature. Life Lessons from Goethe 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z This doctrine, known as determinism, was advocated passionately by the philosopher Baruch Spinoza, whom Einstein considered a great hero. Einstein's Parable of Quantum Insanity 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z This led later scholars such as Baruch Spinoza to reject the Bible as a reliable historical document. The Humanities and Science Share the Virtues of Empiricism and Skepticism 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z Spinoza says he expects construction on the homes to begin this year. Chemical plant expansions make Gonzales housing boom target 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z Spinoza wanted a knowledge of the world that was as certain as the truths of mathematics, but Hume pointed out that this was a category mistake. Are We Really So Modern? 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z By “God” he meant the deity described by seventeenth-century Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza: an emblem of the best possible natural order. “Albert is an old fool”: Einstein vs Schrödinger in battle of the Nobel laureates 2015-04-18T04:00:00Z As 17th-century Dutch philosopher Baruch de Spinoza put it, “When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master, but lies at the mercy of fortune.” Control Your Feelings in 5 Stages 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Goldstein is the author of six novels, as well as studies of the mathematician Kurt Gödel and the philosopher Baruch Spinoza. Rebecca Newberger Goldstein: ‘Science is our best answer, but it takes a philosophical argument to prove that’ 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z At 383 pages, it attempted to tie together the philosophies of Immanuel Kant, Oswald Spengler and Arnold Toynbee, while roping in ideas from Descartes, Dostoyevsky, Hegel, Hume, Socrates and Spinoza. Walter Isaacson Reviews Henry Kissinger's New Book 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z There could not be two substances in the universe, Spinoza argued, one physical and the other divine, since this involved a logical contradiction. Are We Really So Modern? 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z Agreeing with Spinoza, Einstein sought the invariant rules governing nature’s mechanisms. “Albert is an old fool”: Einstein vs Schrödinger in battle of the Nobel laureates 2015-04-18T04:00:00Z Spinoza claimed that human reluctance to slaughter animals is “founded rather on vain superstition and womanish pity than on sound reason.” Zoo Animals and Their Discontents 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z In addition, this physicist was suspicious, as was Spinoza, of the idea that miracles “are the works of God” rather than just rare and poorly understood phenomena. How Atheism Helped Create the Modern World [Excerpt] 2014-03-14T13:50:00Z It was Spinoza who provided Prof Fu with the connection to Judaism because of "the tolerance and generosity in his work". What Jews and the Chinese have in common 2014-02-08T20:13:30Z Gottlieb writes that “his kindness and nobility of character were legendary,” and he quotes Bertrand Russell’s description of Spinoza as “the noblest and most lovable of the great philosophers.” Are We Really So Modern? 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z If you learn about what Kant or Spinoza once said, it is not so much to understand their argument as to use their argument. Why must French pupils master philosophy? 2013-06-03T00:24:06Z Spinoza says that sadness arises from a disconnection from our potençia – our power to act. In Spain they are all indignados nowadays 2013-04-28T19:50:01Z Hobbes and Spinoza—however wary they may have been about speaking too “boldly”—helped. How Atheism Helped Create the Modern World [Excerpt] 2014-03-14T13:50:00Z As Benedict Spinoza once wrote “Free people are led more by hope than by fear, while subjugated people are led more by fear than hope.” The Good News No One Believes 2012-11-25T13:20:00Z Instead, Spinoza made God so crucial to the world that the distinction between the two collapsed. Are We Really So Modern? 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z The greatness of this man, a good Catholic, whom the Jesuits charged with Atheism, has no mean tribute in his influence on an equally remarkable man, Benedict Spinoza. Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement 2012-04-26T02:00:14.960Z It is generally admitted that he had no accurate knowledge either of Spinoza, whose monism he advocated, or of Kant, whose critical philosophy he so fiercely attacked. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z Indeed, Newton—when not looking for hidden predictions, at least—was partial to Spinoza’s reading of the Bible as a human document. How Atheism Helped Create the Modern World [Excerpt] 2014-03-14T13:50:00Z That is, Spinoza treats “cause” absolute and “existence” as two words having the same meaning. Theological Essays 2012-03-27T02:00:21.867Z This secular, rational approach to Scripture made Spinoza arguably the father of Biblical criticism. Are We Really So Modern? 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z Spinoza reduced the Cartesian analysis of phenomena into God, mind and matter to one phenomenon, namely, God, of whom matter and spirit, extension and thought, are but attributes. Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement 2012-04-26T02:00:14.960Z We find her translating Spinoza's Ethics; not only translating but publishing Feuerbach's Essence of Christianity and Strauss's Life of Jesus. The English Novel And the Principle of its Development 2012-03-21T02:00:37.123Z Like Spinoza, Newton, when writing for himself, also had no use for a corporeal view of God. How Atheism Helped Create the Modern World [Excerpt] 2014-03-14T13:50:00Z Volney appears to have been one of the first to popularise many of Spinoza’s Biblical criticisms. Theological Essays 2012-03-27T02:00:21.867Z If Spinoza seemed to take away humanity’s metaphysical freedom, however, he gave it an unprecedented degree of political freedom in exchange. Are We Really So Modern? 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z If a man aims, as Spinoza remarks, at doing real good to himself, he will be sure to do most good to others. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z With Spinoza he could say—oh, terrifying irony!—that "mankind is not necessary" in the eternal scheme. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z In the Ignorant Philosopher Voltaire seeks to answer Spinoza, without fully understanding his monistic position. Voltaire: A Sketch of his Life and Works 2012-03-14T02:00:25.570Z Voltaire says of Spinoza: “Not only in the character of a Jew he attacks the New Testament, but in the character of a scholar he ruins the Old.” Theological Essays 2012-03-27T02:00:21.867Z Taken together, these beliefs give Spinoza a claim to be considered the first great philosopher of liberal democracy. Are We Really So Modern? 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z Blessedness, says Spinoza, is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z But Hobbes, Spinoza, and Leibniz, were most attentively heard in the passages where they favoured or combatted the dominant social and theological prepossessions. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z It is remarkable that Hume does not appear to have been acquainted with Spinoza’s analysis of the affections. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" 2012-02-24T03:00:27.173Z The logic of Spinoza was directed to the demonstration of one substance with infinite attributes, for which one substance with infinite attributes he had as equivalent the name “God.” Theological Essays 2012-03-27T02:00:21.867Z Where Descartes and Spinoza tried to come to grips with reality through purely deductive logic, the conventional story goes, Locke and Hume valued the evidence of the senses. Are We Really So Modern? 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z Spinoza's "Will and understanding are one" means: the activity of the will is the realization of the activity of thought. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z Descartes, Malebranche, Spinoza, and Leibnitz have all indicated God as this nexus. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z There can be no certainty with regard to the last hours of Spinoza. The Last Words of Distinguished Men and Women (Real and Traditional) 2012-02-22T03:00:24.020Z His bursts of eloquent enthusiasm over men whom the church outlawed—Spinoza for example—made amends with them for the absence of doctrinal exactness. Transcendentalism in New England A History 2012-02-18T03:00:16.210Z But Baruch Spinoza, another revolutionary thinker of the seventeenth century, went furthest in reconceiving the idea of God, in ways so radical that his name became a byword for dangerous atheism. Are We Really So Modern? 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z This significance of the word is the oldest, comes down to us from Socrates, and is used by Augustine, Spinoza, and many others. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z Spinoza has asserted that “all individual bodies are animate, though in different degrees74.” Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z Offer up reverently with me a lock of hair to the manes of the rejected but holy Spinoza! The Last Words of Distinguished Men and Women (Real and Traditional) 2012-02-22T03:00:24.020Z It seemed to me that his mind must have been moulded by some other mind, with which I ought to be acquainted, in order to know him well—perhaps Spinoza's. Transcendentalism in New England A History 2012-02-18T03:00:16.210Z Spinoza’s trouble with organized religion started early: at the age of twenty-three, he was excommunicated from the Jewish community of Amsterdam for his heretical views. Are We Really So Modern? 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z All that is wanted is the proper method; and this method I assure you that Science, true knowledge, that which Spinoza termed the inward aid of God, can give you. West African studies 2012-02-15T03:00:28.537Z Did he do the one-hundredth part of the good for mankind that was done by Voltaire—was he as great a metaphysician as Spinoza? The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:04:02.353Z He gave his suffering friend such medical assistance as he could; and, amongst other orders, desired the landlady to kill a chicken, that Spinoza might have some soup for dinner. The Last Words of Distinguished Men and Women (Real and Traditional) 2012-02-22T03:00:24.020Z Give me rather the conception of Spinoza, the conception of Humboldt, of Darwin, of Huxley, of Tyndall and of every other man who has thought. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 7 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:58.623Z A more unexpected corollary of Spinoza’s pantheism is that it eliminates the possibility of free will, or of contingency of any kind. Are We Really So Modern? 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z Now, I pray you, do not think I am saying that there is a “wisdom religion” in Fetish, or anything like that, or that Fetish priests are Spinozas and Goethes—far from it. West African studies 2012-02-15T03:00:28.537Z He knows nothing of the great scientists—of the great thinkers, of the emancipators of the human race; knows nothing of Spinoza, of Voltaire, of Draper, Buckle, of Paine or Renan. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany 2012-02-11T03:03:52.627Z When Van der Spyck and his wife returned from the afternoon service, they heard that Spinoza had died about three o'clock. The Last Words of Distinguished Men and Women (Real and Traditional) 2012-02-22T03:00:24.020Z I am willing to take the conceptions of Humboldt and Darwin, of Haeckel and Spinoza, and I am willing to compare their splendid conceptions with the doctrine embraced in the Baptist creed. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 7 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:58.623Z There is something unearthly about Spinoza’s thought; similarly, there was something unworldly about the man himself. Are We Really So Modern? 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z I presume he 46 is honest in this opinion, and no doubt regards Bruno, Spinoza and Humboldt as driveling imbeciles. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 5 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:49.813Z I thank Bruno, the bravest, and Spinoza, the subtlest of men. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 4 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:46.253Z Spinoza is regarded as the ablest of modern pantheistic philosophers. The Last Words of Distinguished Men and Women (Real and Traditional) 2012-02-22T03:00:24.020Z Did he ever hear of Descartes, of Laplace, of Spinoza? The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 7 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:58.623Z Let us compare Bruno with the Christians who burned him; and we will compare Spinoza, Voltaire, Diderot, Hume, Jefferson, Paine—with the men who it is claimed have been the visible representatives of God. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 3 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:43.960Z Derman, author of “Models.Behaving.Badly” and former head of quantitative finance at Goldman Sachs Group Inc., gleaned insights from Spinoza’s “Ethics.” Lehman Bust Left Goldmanite Derman, Das Reading Spinoza, Twain 2012-02-07T08:28:23Z I have read and re-read Spinoza's Ethics within the last thirteen months. Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z This was done, and Spinoza ate the soup with a good appetite. The Last Words of Distinguished Men and Women (Real and Traditional) 2012-02-22T03:00:24.020Z Spinoza is also a favourite, second only to Plato. Notable Women Authors of the Day Biographical Sketches 2012-01-19T03:00:21.017Z ONE of the greatest thinkers was Benedict Spinoza, a Jew, born at Amsterdam, in 1632. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 3 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:43.960Z Derman: The best book I’ve read that addresses, very indirectly, the supposed decline of the West is Spinoza’s “Ethics,” which is in part about the role of the transcendent in human affairs. Lehman Bust Left Goldmanite Derman, Das Reading Spinoza, Twain 2012-02-07T08:28:23Z I washed breakfast things, cleared the table, walked, read Spinoza a little, then had to 'fly round,' as my dinner was an early one. Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z Coleridge pronounced the Pantheism of Spinoza preferable to modern Deism, which he held to be but "the hypocrisy of Materialism." The Last Words of Distinguished Men and Women (Real and Traditional) 2012-02-22T03:00:24.020Z He contemplates human life with a profound feeling, like that of Pascal, and with a speculative elevation like that of Spinoza. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Spinoza put to the rabbis so many questions, and so persistently asked for reasons, that he became the most troublesome of students. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 3 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:43.960Z From Platonism to the realism of scholasticism, from this to the geometry of Spinoza and the dialectic of Hegel, the form of the theory has varied constantly; the substance of it has remained the same. Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History 2012-01-01T03:00:07.953Z "Spinoza's great word;—if we love God, we shall not trouble ourselves about his loving us." Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z In the passage referred to, Spinoza had in view the necessity with which the stone flies, and he rightly desires to transfer this necessity to that of the particular act of will of a person. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z Spinoza is further commemorated by a monument in front of the house in which he died in 1677. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 2011-12-26T03:00:11.613Z In the darkness of the synagogue the rabbis lighted their torches, and while pronouncing the curse, extinguished them in blood, imploring God that in like manner the soul of Benedict Spinoza might be extinguished. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 3 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:43.960Z In his system the Will is one and all, like the 'Deus' of Spinoza. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z Spinoza, the most consistent of the dogmatic rationalists, finds himself compelled in his formulation of the analytic interpretation of the causal relation handed down to him to transform it into a mathematical one. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z For opposites always throw light upon each other, and the day at once reveals both itself and the night, as Spinoza admirably remarks. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z This doctrine of motives is the very essence of the system of Spinoza, whose deity was the energy of nature! Calvinistic Controversy Embracing a Sermon on Predestination and Election and Several Numbers, Formally Published in the Christian Advocate and Journal. 2011-12-08T03:00:27.177Z Spinoza was but twenty-four years old when he found himself without kindred, without friends, surrounded only by enemies. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 3 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:43.960Z Their affinity, therefore, seems to be with the Christian Gnostics rather than with the pure philosophers of the Greek tradition, continued in modern times by Bruno, Spinoza, and Schopenhauer. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z He, indeed, will not in future, like Spinoza, seek to reduce philosophy to the mere development, in mathematical form, of the consequences of certain arbitrary hypotheses. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z The will indeed came to be regarded as an act of thought, and to be identified with the judgment, especially by Descartes and Spinoza. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z D�llinger, challenged by the Archbishop of Munich to accept the decree, refused, and was cut off, like Spinoza, to his eternal honour, from the congregation of the faithful. Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone 2011-12-06T03:00:20.687Z Spinoza was a naturalist—that is to say, a pantheist. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 3 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:43.960Z Aristotle's mode of dealing with the Platonic ideas was followed, and Spinoza was the great exponent of "the strict correlation of the attribute of matter with the attribute of thought." John Dewey's logical theory 2011-11-28T03:00:21.547Z On this point my view is stated in a sentence of Spinoza's: "He who would love God rightly must not desire that God love him in return." The Book of Life 2011-11-25T03:00:13.343Z Another class of twelve or fourteen, in the same year, on Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibnitz, met in one of the 'tower rooms' of Sever Hall, sitting around a table. The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z One of the greatest thinkers of the world was Benedict Spinoza—a Jew, born at Amsterdam in 1638. Ingersollia Gems of Thought from the Lectures, Speeches, and Conversations of Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, Representative of His Opinions and Beliefs 2011-11-24T03:00:41.267Z Spinoza has been hated because he has not been answered. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 3 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:43.960Z As representatives of the dogmatic period in modern philosophy, DesCartes and Spinoza may be chosen. Social Value A Study in Economic Theory Critical and Constructive 2011-11-19T03:00:28.253Z I found Spinoza very difficult to understand, but I became interested in his Ethics and especially in his explanation of the conception of God. Autobiography of Countess Tolstoy 2011-11-17T03:00:32.207Z Part of the inspiration: "When I was in high school I was desperately searching for a girl who was into punk rock who was also into Spinoza and Nietzsche," he said. Are Start-ups Getting Too Much Money? 2011-11-16T10:51:00Z Spinoza was but twenty-four years old when he found himself without friends and without kindred. Ingersollia Gems of Thought from the Lectures, Speeches, and Conversations of Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, Representative of His Opinions and Beliefs 2011-11-24T03:00:41.267Z Spinoza admits that Morality is not the consequence of a law inherent in the individual, but of an extraneous law forced upon him by society; that it is not an individual but a social phenomenon. Morals and the Evolution of Man 2011-11-14T03:00:18.930Z He and Mary were never more industrious than at this time; reading extensively, and working together on a translation of Spinoza they had begun at Florence, and which occupied them, at intervals, for many months. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:08.903Z There were four pairs who responded to me in my sacrifice: Epicurus and Montaigne, Goethe and Spinoza, Plato and Rousseau, Pascal and Schopenhauer. Human, All-Too-Human, Part II 2011-10-26T02:00:29.773Z As the Jewish hierarchy said of Spinoza: "Let his name be cast out under the whole heavens!" The Story of Magellan and The Discovery of the Philippines 2011-10-22T02:00:26.240Z So, young Spinoza was offered an annual stipend of 1,000 florins if he would be silent upon his convictions and from time to time show himself at the synagogue. The International Jew The World's Foremost Problem 2011-10-16T02:00:19.257Z Spinoza's "Ethics" leaves the reader in great discomfort, the result of vacillating and contradictory explanations. Morals and the Evolution of Man 2011-11-14T03:00:18.930Z There was no pure metaphysics—a compendium or two of philosophy, a bit of Spinoza, of Kant, of Cousin, of Jouffroy, of Malebranche, the "Dialogues" of Plato—nothing of Schelling or Hegel. Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 2011-10-15T02:00:25.820Z Was by profession an optician like Spinoza, but God vouchsafed to him greater spiritual sight than to the philosopher. Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ 2011-10-14T02:00:24.730Z His influence proved decisive in shaping the career of Spinoza. Creed And Deed A Series of Discourses 2011-10-12T02:00:40.147Z Goethe, seeing Spinoza's face de-monized on a tract, was moved to studies of that philosopher which ended in recognition of his greatness. The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. I. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England; to which is added a Sketch of Paine by William Cobbett 2011-10-12T02:00:38.787Z The amoralist can emphatically deny this, basing his conclusion on Spinoza's own definition. Morals and the Evolution of Man 2011-11-14T03:00:18.930Z Or it may be that the thoughtful youth Spinoza, silent and abstemious, found there some theme for his revolutionary philosophy. Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z He was thus important as the precursor of Malebranche and Spinoza. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 8 "Germany" to "Gibson, William" 2011-10-05T02:00:17.763Z Bruno also deserves mention among those who determined the bias of Spinoza's mind. Creed And Deed A Series of Discourses 2011-10-12T02:00:40.147Z The early philosophy of Spinoza has shed its mathematical shell, and now flutters about us as Goethean poetry. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z Many such questions could be put to Spinoza, but this one is enough. Morals and the Evolution of Man 2011-11-14T03:00:18.930Z How like the pantheism of Spinoza, first proclaimed some years later! Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z The philosophy of Leibnitz is opposed at once to the theosophy of Paracelsus and Böhme and to the empiricism of Bacon and Locke, the pantheism of Spinoza, and the scepticism and manichæism of Bayle. Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 2011-09-14T02:00:43.813Z God is not matter, is not mind; is that deeper unity in which matter and mind are one; God or Nature, Spinoza says. Creed And Deed A Series of Discourses 2011-10-12T02:00:40.147Z The microbe of ink having entered into his blood, he conceived the idea of putting Schopenhauer and Spinoza before the public in condensed and epigrammatic form. Edgar Saltus: The Man 2011-09-13T02:00:36.953Z This is a wordy paraphrase of Spinoza's: "All existence is self-assertion, and Morality is only the highest and purest form of this fundamental instinct in a reasonable being." Morals and the Evolution of Man 2011-11-14T03:00:18.930Z But, as Spinoza pointed out, possibility narrows as knowledge grows. Determinism or Free-Will? 2011-09-10T02:00:27.557Z Spinoza, Locke, and Leibnitz were in succession the leaders of this philosophical development. Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 2011-09-14T02:00:43.813Z Spinoza himself was keenly alive to the gravity of his position. Creed And Deed A Series of Discourses 2011-10-12T02:00:40.147Z All the great metaphysical systems—notably those of Plato, Spinoza, and Hegel—are the outcome of this fundamental idea. Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.423Z “Life is a meditation, not of death, but of life,” said Spinoza. Elements of Morals With Special Application of the Moral Law to the Duties of the Individual and of Society and the State 2011-08-10T02:00:16.913Z We cannot accept Descartes, or Spinoza, or Leibnitz, or Bacon, or Hobbes, or Locke, as giving satisfactory or even coherent systems, or as having done more than lead to the thorough scepticism of Hume. Social Rights And Duties Addresses to Ethical Societies Vol II 2011-08-05T02:00:45.557Z It was published at Antwerp in 1569-1572, under the auspices of Philip II. of Spain, and under the superintendence of Cardinal de Spinoza. The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, March 1865 2011-07-30T02:00:17.007Z On pillars of intellect, Spinoza reared his system. Creed And Deed A Series of Discourses 2011-10-12T02:00:40.147Z It is in this way that logic has been pursued by those of the great philosophers who were mystics—notably Plato, Spinoza, and Hegel. Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.423Z The affirmation that we are "free" rests, as Spinoza said, ultimately on the fact that all men know their actions and but few know the causes thereof. A Grammar of Freethought 2011-07-30T02:00:13.083Z The translation of Spinoza's 'Ethics' by George Eliot was also executed in the same year. Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z Isolated by Christian ostracism, the Jew tills no ground; he follows no handicraft—a Spinoza here and there excepted. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:17.663Z Spinoza's name marks a lofty peak in human history. Creed And Deed A Series of Discourses 2011-10-12T02:00:40.147Z It is curious to reflect that great metaphysicians, like Spinoza and Hegel, are often accused of the un-moral impartiality which Keats attributes to the poet. Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z "Does not Spinoza say: 'Everything is beautiful, and as I lose myself in the observation of its beauty, my pleasure in life is increased.'" On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau 2011-07-17T02:00:33.887Z She had read portions of the Talmud, and remarked one day in conversation that Spinoza had really got something from the Cabbala. Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z The Cabbalists taught that evil was only the shadow of the Light; Maimonides, Spinoza, Hegel and Emerson taught the doctrine which Mr. Browning here inculcates. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z The belief in immortality has been held in this way by some of the greatest intellects of the human race, Spinoza among the rest. Creed And Deed A Series of Discourses 2011-10-12T02:00:40.147Z Spinoza’s pantheistic theory of the world, which regards thought and extension as but two sides of one substance, the problem of becoming is submerged in that of being. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" 2011-07-16T02:00:16.387Z This great and religious Poem has been absurdly said to teach Pantheism, which these stanzas refute; or perhaps they rather deny the doctrine of Spinoza, if that be clearly understood. A Key to Lord Tennyson's 'In Memoriam' 2011-07-07T02:00:25.637Z About the same period Miss Evans also translated Spinoza's De Deo for the benefit of an inquiring friend. Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z He published upwards of thirty different works, and gave us the best edition of Spinoza. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 2011-07-02T02:00:11.323Z Calmly as he had lived, in the stillness of the Sunday afternoon, Spinoza passed away. Creed And Deed A Series of Discourses 2011-10-12T02:00:40.147Z Although Spinoza’s theory attributes a mental side to all physical events, he rejects all teleological conceptions and explains the order of things as the result of an inherent necessity. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" 2011-07-16T02:00:16.387Z He is neither the supreme being of Robespierre and J. J. Rousseau, nor the pantheistic god of Spinoza, nor even the at once immanent, transcendental, and very equivocal god of Hegel. God and the State 2011-07-02T02:00:10.230Z Mr. Lewes, alluding to it in 'Goethe's Life,' says, in a foot-note, "It may interest some readers to learn that Spinoza will ere long appear in English, edited by the writer of these lines." Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z One M. Leon de Montbeillard has published a work on Spinoza. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 2011-07-02T02:00:11.323Z But Spinoza felt that the city was now no longer safe for him to dwell in. Creed And Deed A Series of Discourses 2011-10-12T02:00:40.147Z So far Spinoza approaches the conception of evolution. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" 2011-07-16T02:00:16.387Z To say that Spinoza was a rigorous logician is like saying that Shakspeare was dramatic, and Milton imaginative—a platitude unworthy of an original mind, a truism beneath notice. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None 2011-06-27T02:01:02.870Z The desire to possess himself of Spinoza's works, still in the odour of pestilential heresy, haunted him like a passion. Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z He denies that Spinoza has any skill whatever in the science of reason, that he is a mere rhapsodist! The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 2011-07-02T02:00:11.323Z When Spinoza heard of this anathema he calmly replied: "They compel me to do nothing which I was not previously resolved upon." Creed And Deed A Series of Discourses 2011-10-12T02:00:40.147Z Sir F. Pollock has taken pains to show how nearly Spinoza approaches certain ideas contained in the modern doctrine of evolution, as for example that of self-preservation as the determining force in things. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" 2011-07-16T02:00:16.387Z A French writer, M. Leon de Montbeillard, has just published a work on Spinoza, calling in question the logical powers of that "thorny" reasoner on inscrutable problems. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None 2011-06-27T02:01:02.870Z The study of Spinoza led to his publishing an article on his life and works in the Westminster Review of 1843, almost the first account of the great Hebrew philosopher which appeared in this country. Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z To say that Spinoza was a rigorous logician is a platitude, a truism. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 2011-07-02T02:00:11.323Z There in the year 1632, the child of Spanish emigrants, Benedict Spinoza was born. Creed And Deed A Series of Discourses 2011-10-12T02:00:40.147Z Spinoza’s aphorism:—“Those who love God truly must not expect that God will love them in return,” roots deep in human experience. Lodges in the Wilderness 2011-06-15T02:00:17.057Z If Spinoza has one characteristic more eminent than another, it is commonly supposed to be the geometric precision and exactitude of his logical demonstrations. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None 2011-06-27T02:01:02.870Z And a vast array of distinguished agnostics, so-called, from Darwin, Spinoza, Huxley and Haeckel to Ingersoll, were really believers in pantheism. The Universe a Vast Electric Organism 2011-06-09T02:00:22.450Z And yet," says Froude, "both in friend and enemy alike, there has been a reluctance to see Spinoza as he really was. Heresy: Its Utility And Morality A Plea And A Justification 2011-05-31T02:00:37.797Z In all these different branches of theology the young Spinoza made rapid progress and soon gained astonishing proficiency. Creed And Deed A Series of Discourses 2011-10-12T02:00:40.147Z That is, Spinoza treats "cause" absolute and "existence" as two words having the same meaning. A Few Words About the Devil And Other Biographical Sketches and Essays 2011-05-31T02:00:28.247Z To the first belong Malebranche, Spinoza, Leibnitz himself; to the second, the philosophers of the eighteenth century. Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good 2011-05-25T02:00:17.943Z Among the older metaphysicians his principal guide was Spinoza, and in more modern speculative science he did not advance beyond Schopenhauer. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z Voltaire says of Spinoza, "Not only in the character of a Jew he attacks the New Testament, but in the character of a scholar he ruins the Old." Heresy: Its Utility And Morality A Plea And A Justification 2011-05-31T02:00:37.797Z Religion, however, was Spinoza's favorite theme, that religion which is free from all passionate longings and averse to superstition of whatever kind. Creed And Deed A Series of Discourses 2011-10-12T02:00:40.147Z The axioms, so far as I shall give them, are in the precise language of Spinoza. A Few Words About the Devil And Other Biographical Sketches and Essays 2011-05-31T02:00:28.247Z But in freeing God from all external constraint, Spinoza subjects him to an internal and mathematical necessity, wherein he finds the perfection of being. Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good 2011-05-25T02:00:17.943Z Spinoza follows him, the God-intoxicated man, and Leibnitz and other monumental believers. Colors of Life Poems and Songs and Sonnets 2011-05-09T02:00:03.610Z The logic of Spinoza was directed to the demonstration of one substance with infinite attributes, for which one substance with infinite attributes he had as equivalent the name "God." Heresy: Its Utility And Morality A Plea And A Justification 2011-05-31T02:00:37.797Z Toward the end of February the two hundredth anniversary of the death of Benedict Spinoza, afforded us a welcome opportunity to dwell upon the life and philosophy of that illustrious thinker. Creed And Deed A Series of Discourses 2011-10-12T02:00:40.147Z Even horses are massaged into characters with emotional lives: the goofy Little Spinoza, the gutsy Lord of Misrule. 2011 Pulitzer winners in journalism and arts 2011-04-18T19:53:00Z Strange confounding of will and desire, wherein the most opposite schools meet each other, Spinoza, Malebranche, and Condillac, the philosophy of the seventeenth century, and that of the eighteenth! Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good 2011-05-25T02:00:17.943Z Spinoza.—The philosopher with whom we shall first concern ourselves was a Jew of Spanish extraction, living in what was then the freest country in Europe—Holland. Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson 2011-04-07T02:00:16.760Z Volney appears to have been one of the first to popularise many of Spinoza's Biblical criticisms. Heresy: Its Utility And Morality A Plea And A Justification 2011-05-31T02:00:37.797Z Although Malebranche, fervent catholic that he was, protested against the pantheism of “le misérable Spinoza,” his own system contains the undeveloped germ of this pernicious error. Ontology or the Theory of Being 2011-04-01T02:00:38.727Z That he, moreover, thought pretty nearly as Spinoza has since thought? or rather endeavored to think, for he contradicts himself frequently—a thing very common to ancient philosophers. A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version" 2011-03-31T02:00:21.443Z Pity and repentance, Spinoza said, were vain and evil; what increased a man's power and his joy increased his goodness also. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z Spinoza's Method.—Spinoza's philosophical ancestry may be traced back to Bruno, whose acquaintance we made in a previous chapter, but in whose company we did not long remain. Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson 2011-04-07T02:00:16.760Z His method is that of Spinoza, strict demonstration, or at least an attempt at it. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" 2011-03-14T03:01:00.580Z This conception of substance is the starting-point of Spinoza's pantheistic philosophy. Ontology or the Theory of Being 2011-04-01T02:00:38.727Z Shelley soon broke away from the teaching of Godwin and Spinoza with regard to the freedom of the will. The Radicalism of Shelley and Its Sources 2011-03-08T03:00:45.010Z He who truly loves God, says Spinoza, cannot wish that God should love him in return. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z By similar means, Spinoza hoped to indicate the reality of the spiritual, without disturbing the mechanical world-conception which the new science and new philosophy had created between them. Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson 2011-04-07T02:00:16.760Z So again the controversy that Clarke conducted with Spinoza, and afterwards with Leibnitz, was entirely confined to the metaphysical region. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" 2011-02-27T03:00:31.973Z This is what Spinoza did; and his monism in one form or other is the last word of many contemporary philosophers on the nature of the universe which constitutes the totality of human experience.—Cf. Ontology or the Theory of Being 2011-04-01T02:00:38.727Z Often though he distinguishes between God and Nature; and in this respect differs from Spinoza and those who are pantheists in the stricter use of the term. The Radicalism of Shelley and Its Sources 2011-03-08T03:00:45.010Z It is true that he was all his life a follower of Spinoza, and that he may be termed, without hesitation, a naturalist in philosophy and a pantheist. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z As Spinoza puts it in one of his letters: Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson 2011-04-07T02:00:16.760Z He possessed the indomitable equanimity of a stoic, and looked upon the necessary combination of affairs of this world with the eyes of a Spinoza. Withered Leaves. Vol. II. (of III) A Novel 2011-02-25T03:01:17.540Z There is yet another mistaken notion of substance, the notion in which the well known pantheistic philosophy of Spinoza has had its origin. Ontology or the Theory of Being 2011-04-01T02:00:38.727Z There is another difference between the pantheism of Shelley and that of Spinoza. The Radicalism of Shelley and Its Sources 2011-03-08T03:00:45.010Z He also assigned, at least to privileged souls, like his own, a more personal sort of immortality than Spinoza allowed. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z The "Ethics."—Spinoza may rightly be termed a man of one book. Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson 2011-04-07T02:00:16.760Z He could discuss even the principles of Spinoza, and ‘venture into the daring path Spinoza trod.’ The Real Robert Burns 2011-02-18T03:00:20.253Z Now, the scholastic definition of substance and Spinoza's definition embody two entirely distinct notions. Ontology or the Theory of Being 2011-04-01T02:00:38.727Z Spinoza on the other hand makes man the king and center of the Universe. The Radicalism of Shelley and Its Sources 2011-03-08T03:00:45.010Z Thus Goethe did not admit the mechanical interpretation of nature advocated by Spinoza. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z This thought is, according to Spinoza, the fruit of the highest activity of the human mind; this is the amor intellectualis dei; and the supreme good for man. Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson 2011-04-07T02:00:16.760Z We might select many passages from philosophical works that belong to the literature of ecstasy, passages from Bacon, Descartes, Spinoza, and Hume, but more especially from Plato, Pascal, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z The passion for speculative thought awakened by Spinoza was stirring the German soul to its depths. A Short History of Germany 2011-02-14T03:00:40.360Z Shelley’s notions on belief can be traced to Locke and not to Spinoza. The Radicalism of Shelley and Its Sources 2011-03-08T03:00:45.010Z His adherence to the general attitude of Spinoza, however, did not exclude a great plasticity and freedom in his own views, even on the most fundamental points. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z Spinoza and Religion.—It is interesting to note that Spinoza, though a "free-thinking" Jew, adopts towards the fundamental dogma of Christianity an attitude which approximates to the classical expression of it in the Fourth Gospel. Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson 2011-04-07T02:00:16.760Z Is the verse of Goethe where pantheism is taught, poetry, and do you find no poetry at all in Spinoza's Ethics? The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z He might have discovered the same sustaining truth in religion; but Spinoza's mind led him to seek it instead in a philosophical system which should harmonize the discordant facts of existence. A Short History of Germany 2011-02-14T03:00:40.360Z According to Spinoza, judgment, perception, and volition are one and the same thing. The Radicalism of Shelley and Its Sources 2011-03-08T03:00:45.010Z Goethe there is interpreting nature with Spinoza; he is not dreaming with Swedenborg, nor talking equivocal paradoxes with Hegel. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z "The God-intoxicated," was the name given to Spinoza long afterwards in Germany. Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson 2011-04-07T02:00:16.760Z During 1855 she translated Spinoza’s Ethics, wrote articles for the Leader, the Westminster Review, and the Saturday Review—then a new thing. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z Kant had found that Spinoza's Eternal Order must be a Moral Order. A Short History of Germany 2011-02-14T03:00:40.360Z There is no certainty that Shelley was acquainted with the works of Spinoza when he wrote Queen Mab. The Radicalism of Shelley and Its Sources 2011-03-08T03:00:45.010Z Pity and remorse, they seem to say, in the words of Spinoza, are evil and vain; failure is incidental; error is innocent. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z Leibniz.—Spinoza had taken over from Descartes and Hobbes their mechanical and determinist conception of nature, though he gave to it, as we have seen, an interpretation of his own. Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson 2011-04-07T02:00:16.760Z Away, ye chattering apes of a sophomorean Spinoza and Plato, who once didst all but delude me that the night was day, and pain only a tickle. Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z It is true he thoroughly detested him in his heart, as an avowed adherent of Voltaire and Spinoza, a declared atheist; nevertheless he had more than once made great efforts to obtain his patronage. Problematic Characters A Novel 2010-12-26T03:00:15.780Z One would be in this highest stage, according to Spinoza, when one has attained the intellectual love of God. The Radicalism of Shelley and Its Sources 2011-03-08T03:00:45.010Z The secret of what is serious in the moral of Faust is to be looked for in Spinoza,—the source of what is serious in the philosophy of Goethe. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z Contrast to Spinoza.—Spinoza and Leibniz stand as examples of two distinct methods of eluding the despotism of mechanics—methods which will meet us again in the course of our survey. Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson 2011-04-07T02:00:16.760Z It attached him at first to Spinoza and later to mathematical logic. Character and Opinion in the United States 2010-12-20T17:12:15.253Z There is nothing individual about them; the author seems as impersonal as Spinoza's conception of God. Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons, Volume 3 (of 3) 2010-12-20T17:11:42.357Z Spinoza, for whom God alone existed, was persecuted as an atheist. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" Spinoza has an admirable doctrine, or rather insight, which he calls seeing things under the form of eternity. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z A Philosophy of Individuals.—Leibniz's criticism of Descartes and the mechanical school proceeded along different lines from that of Spinoza, who, as we have seen, accepted the mechanical view as the basis of his speculation. Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson 2011-04-07T02:00:16.760Z You were your own master, and omnipotent; but you were no less dark, hostile, and inexorable to yourself than the gods of Calvin or of Spinoza had been before. Character and Opinion in the United States 2010-12-20T17:12:15.253Z In philosophy, Anaximander, Heraclitus, Zeno, Socrates, Spinoza, Kant, and Hegel have all found negation, or contradiction, necessary to any adequate account of reality. The Will to Doubt An essay in philosophy for the general thinker Amsterdam is the birthplace of Spinoza and of the painters van de Velde and van der Neer. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli At this time he was in frequent communication with such men as Spinoza and Leibnitz, the distinguished philosophers. Catholic Churchmen in Science Weakness of Speculative Philosophy.—Spinoza and Leibniz may be said to have dispensed with this foundation. Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson 2011-04-07T02:00:16.760Z They all, with the exception of the free-thinker Spinoza, sought to keep their system, concerning the divine rule in nature and in the soul of man, in unison with the doctrines of Christian theology. Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. I. There have been those who, like Spinoza, regarded health and disease, good and ill, as equally real and equally unreal. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude What I feel for you--we've not yet come to Spinoza," he interrupted himself with a quiet smile, "so the phraseology of the schools is not familiar to you. The Children of the World The metaphysics of Aristotle, the ethics of Spinoza, the philosophical works of Cicero, and many kindred works, were also frequent subjects of study. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" It was undervalued, for both Spinoza and Leibniz were thinkers of the first calibre; and yet there was some justice in the charge. Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson 2011-04-07T02:00:16.760Z The French Descartes, the English Locke, the Dutch Spinoza, and the German Leibnitz, Thomasius and Wolf, were the great exponents of this philosophy. Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. I. Experience is, as Spinoza says, passion and action, both inextricably mingled and coincident, with the good and evil of them as interwoven as they. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude The philosophical basis of monism was never thought out till the time of Spinoza. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy She had two world-leaders in philosophy, Spinoza and Descartes, the latter belonging also to France. Woman's Club Work and Programs First Aid to Club Women The word critical signifies a particular method of approaching the problem of existence, a method which must be contrasted with that of the speculative philosophy, of which Spinoza and Leibniz are examples. Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson 2011-04-07T02:00:16.760Z Causa sui is a term applied to God by Spinoza to denote that he is dependent on nothing and has no need of any external thing for his existence. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" Such a mystic as Spinoza, who finds good in the understanding values this because in it man is "active," and would unite himself with the All because in God is Power and Freedom. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude But the systems of Plato, Aristotle, Spinoza, Leibniz, etc., are all alike factors of the truth. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy Spinoza accounts for it neither as illusory nor as real. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" The Term Nature.—It would be a misapprehension to suppose that the terms "God" and "Nature" are regarded by Spinoza as interchangeable, though his numerous critics were accustomed to declare that this was the case. Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson 2011-04-07T02:00:16.760Z Thus Campanella, though neither an original nor a systematic thinker, is among the precursors, on the one hand, of modern empirical science, and on the other of Descartes and Spinoza. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" This term plays the part of the amor intellectualis in the system of Spinoza, which enables him at once to discard all emotion and yet to keep it. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude "God manifested himself to Moses, Jesus, Mohammed in the solitude of the desert; to Spinoza in the solitude of the study; to Franklin in the solitude of the sea." Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine If Descartes had followed out this line of thought, he would have been led at once to the pantheism of Spinoza, if not beyond it. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" According to its teaching the true happiness and highest activity of men is to be found in what Spinoza terms "the intellectual love of God." Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson 2011-04-07T02:00:16.760Z Of the second type are those, e.g. of Hobbes and Spinoza, which advocate self-preservation as the ideal, as contrasted with modern evolutionist moralists who advocate race-preservation. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" Once more, Spinoza's solution is typical, and its form is that of all idealisms as well. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude Of seventeenth century philosophers, Spinoza, "the God-intoxicated man," alone met any of the conscious higher needs of woman. Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) CARTESIANISM,1 the general name given to the philosophy developed principally in the works of Descartes, Malebranche and Spinoza. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" Spinoza's work had to be done again in the light of increased psychological knowledge. Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson 2011-04-07T02:00:16.760Z Having accomplished so much, or so little, I desired to go more deeply into the study of philosophy, and, having greedily devoured Spinoza, I turned to Kant, whom I knew only by name. Reminiscences, 1819-1899 The relationship of the two men suggests the somewhat parallel one between Spinoza and Simon de Vries.—Ed. The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume IV (of 8) Hence, women, by thousands, accepted the philosophy of Spinoza under the name of Quietism. Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) It may be true that Malebranche and Spinoza were prepared, the former by the study of Augustine, the latter by the study of Jewish philosophy, to draw from Cartesian principles consequences which Descartes never anticipated. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" The deity of Spinoza and the Eleatics is a mere substance, not a cause in any sense. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" I cannot remember what it was which, soon after this time, led me to the study of Spinoza. Reminiscences, 1819-1899 Baruch Spinoza was by nature unfitted for matrimony. The Scrap Book. Volume 1, No. 2 April 1906 The actual conclusion to be drawn from the treatises of Spinoza, the reputed founder of modern Pantheism, is still undecided. Modern Substitutes for Christianity The key to this difficulty is that Spinoza has really, and almost in spite of his logical principles, two opposite conceptions of substance, between which he alternates without ever bringing them to a unity. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" Spinoza derived from Crescas his distinction between attributes and properties; he shared Crescas’s views on creation and free will, and in the whole trend of his thought the influence of Crescas is strongly marked. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" I found this at first rather dry, after the glowing and daring flights of Spinoza, but I soon learned to hold the philosopher of K�nigsberg in great affection and esteem. Reminiscences, 1819-1899 We may be compared to Spinoza's stone; it was thrown, and it thought it was flying. Naturalism And Religion His the impulse which spoke in the thunder of Savonarola, which guided the calm wisdom of Erasmus, which inspired the deep ethics of the God-intoxicated Spinoza.... Modern Substitutes for Christianity The result is, that Spinoza is forced to account for it, not by the nature of substance itself, but by the nature of the intelligence to which it is revealed. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" The former symbolizes his metaphysical conception, which was suggested to him by his reading of Spinoza. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" His view of the relation of God to his creatures is held to foreshadow the pantheism of Spinoza. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" Is the will something really factual, or is it only the strange illusion to which Spinoza, for instance, referred in his illustration of the flying stone? Naturalism And Religion Among the philosophers of the West it was Spinoza to whom he gave the place of highest honour. Mad Shepherds and Other Human Studies What in the first instance recommends the geometrical method to Spinoza is, not only its apparent exactness and the necessity of its sequence, but, so to speak, its disinterestedness. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" Shall we inquire with Spinoza whether we have any ideas independent of experience? History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition Let us think of Dante, Copernicus, and Savonarola; of exiles, persecutions, burnings at the stake; of Spinoza, frail in health, writing his immortal Ethics by the light of the burning villages of his invaded country. The Forerunners Spinoza's example of the stone, which seemed to itself to fly when it was simply thrown, does not meet the facts of the case. Naturalism And Religion Regarding the Great Peace as the ultimate object of human attainment, he held that Spinoza alone had found a clear path to the goal; since then European thought had been continually decadent. Mad Shepherds and Other Human Studies As Spinoza says elsewhere, it belongs to the very nature of the human mind to know God, for unless we know God we could know nothing else. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" He was now a Greek, a follower of Spinoza and Goethe. Atta Troll In Spinoza; or perhaps in Bentham or in Austin. English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century The form in which it is most prevalent now is that given to it by Spinoza, and he is usually referred to in connection with it. Naturalism And Religion There he looked around him with bewildered eyes, gaining no clear impression, save in the negative sense that the city contained nothing to remind him of Spinoza or of the Nazarene. Mad Shepherds and Other Human Studies But the difficulty lies in this, that Spinoza will not admit the negative element, the element of mortification or sacrifice, into morality at all, even as a moment of transition. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" Even Spinoza, who was a Republican and a Jew, assigned to the State the absolute control of religion. The History of Freedom Spinoza's Ethics, demonstrated in geometrical order, consists of five parts; from these parts the following selections have been taken: Part I. Of God Definitions, Axioms, and the Appendix. The Philosophy of Spinoza On the other hand, there is a difficulty which made itself felt even in regard to Spinoza's system. Naturalism And Religion He spoke to them of the Bhagavad Gita and of Spinoza. Mad Shepherds and Other Human Studies Yet Spinoza’s exaltation of the social life, and of the love that binds it together, is too like the Buddhist’s universal charity that embraces all creatures, and all creatures equally. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" On this Lowth observes: “You have been urging the same argument that Spinoza employed, in order to destroy the authority of the Hebrew Scriptures, and to introduce infidelity and atheism.” Calamities and Quarrels of Authors Spinoza may have been indebted to Van den Ende for one other thing: his only recorded romance. The Philosophy of Spinoza All bodily processes must have psychical processes corresponding to them, said Spinoza. Naturalism And Religion Of Spinoza they knew much and understood nothing—thus thought he. Mad Shepherds and Other Human Studies The German treatises on Spinoza are too numerous to mention. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" But, they justly urge, that the use of reason itself is full as liable to the same objection: grant Spinoza his false premises, and his conclusions will be considered as true. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors According to some chronological researches, the fair object of Spinoza's supposed devotion, was only twelve years old. The Philosophy of Spinoza Spinoza, for instance, in 1675, describes Islam as a faith that has known no schism; and twenty years earlier Pascal brands Mohammed as forbidding all study! The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain Nineteenth Century Europe Every moment one expects to find Descartes saying with Hobbes that man’s thought has created God, or with Spinoza and Malebranche that it is God who really thinks in the apparent thought of man. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" Really, according to Spinoza, extension is indivisible, though modally it is divisible. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" The last of these three views belonged to Spinoza, along with the ancient Eleatics, the Neo-Platonists of the early ages, and the principal schools of modern German philosophy. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion Hardly of an age to warrant Spinoza's love, unless he loved her as Dante loved Beatrice. The Philosophy of Spinoza In the early age of Greece he might have been Empedocles or Heraclitus; he could never have been Spinoza or Kant. A Modern Symposium For an account of the metaphysical doctrines of Descartes, in their connexions with Malebranche and Spinoza, see Cartesianism. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" It has, however, been already mentioned that this ascending movement of abstraction does not at once and directly bring Spinoza to the absolute unity of substance. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" Spinoza, though a Jew, had examined the claims of Christianity. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion Spinoza had, in his young days, learned what extreme dangers one must expect to encounter in a righteous community become inimical. The Philosophy of Spinoza A philosophy may, like Spinoza's, be apparelled in the most technical and abstruse panoply of logic, and yet the total impression may stimulate a religious sentiment as effectively as any poetic or theosophic mysticism. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) It is not so easy to be facetious about Homer, or Plato, or Aristotle, or Dante, or Spinoza, or Shakespeare, or Bacon. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) Spinoza seems therefore reduced to a dilemma; he cannot surrender either the unity or the duality of things, yet he cannot relate them to each other. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" Spinoza proposed in this work a plan, perhaps suggested by the perusal of Hobbes, for curing these dissensions. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion A somewhat similar crisis recurred shortly afterwards when Spinoza returned from a visit to the hostile French camp. The Philosophy of Spinoza His doctrines we will let speak for themselves in his own words, trusting thereby to give the reader an opportunity of knowing who and what Spinoza really was. Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers." Spinoza too can be treated jauntily if he does not fall into line with Mr. Le Gallienne. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) Thus, according to Spinoza, the range of possibility narrows as knowledge widens, until to perfected knowledge posibility is lost in necessity. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" Nor is it merely in respect of criticism that Spinoza's views have affected subsequent thought. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion It is certain Spinoza was advised the French King would acknowledge a dedicated book by means of a pension—an advice Spinoza did not act upon. The Philosophy of Spinoza First they remonstrated, then threatened; still Spinoza persevered in his studies, and in making known the result to those around him. Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers." Mr. Le Gallienne will not accept Spinoza's view that "pain is an unmistakable evil; joy the vitalising, fructifying power." Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) There are two kinds of errors which are usually supposed to exclude each other, but which Spinoza finds to be united in opinion. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" Spinoza's ideas are as it were the head waters from which flows the current which is afterwards parted into separate streams. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion Spinoza's landlord feared his house would be wrecked, by an infuriated mob. The Philosophy of Spinoza She, however, although willing to be his instructress and companion in a philogical path, declined to accept his love, and thus Spinoza was left to philosophy alone. Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers." The study of Spinoza confirmed him in the direction thus taken. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13 To the ethical aspect of his philosophy, Descartes, unlike Spinoza, only devoted a subordinate attention. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" For this branch was new in Spinoza's time. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion One of his young friends, Simon de Vries, before his early death occurred, wanted to bequeath all of his estate to Spinoza. The Philosophy of Spinoza Spinoza appears in his boyhood to have been an apt scholar, and to have rapidly mastered the tasks set him by his teachers. Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers." With true critical instinct, Spinoza says that the canon was the work of the Pharisees. The Canon of the Bible But, on the other hand, it is to be observed, that while Spinoza really proceeds by abstraction and negation, he does not mean to do so. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" In Spinoza's own times the work met with unbounded indignation. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion His friends the de Witts, pensioned him too; the heirs to the estate contested Spinoza's claim, whereupon Spinoza promptly withdrew it. The Philosophy of Spinoza At last, in the year 1660, Spinoza, being then twenty-eight years of age, was solemnly excommunicated from the synagogue. Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers." “There is no hope without fear, as there is no fear without hope,” says Spinoza. The Religious Sentiment Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion And the vital question which Spinoza himself prompts us to ask is how far and in what way this transformation is effected in the Spinozistic philosophy. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" Indirectly the effect of Spinoza's thought was seen even in the English church. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion Spinoza's relations with the humble folk he stayed with exhibited the modesty and grace of character that endeared him to his intimate friends. The Philosophy of Spinoza Spinoza only appears to have once fallen in love, and this was with Van den Ende's daughter, who was herself a good linguist, and who gave Spinoza instruction in Latin. Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers." “The ‘will of God’” says Spinoza, “is the refuge of ignorance; the true Will is the spirit of right reasoning.” The Religious Sentiment Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion There are two great steps in the transformation of knowledge by the idea of unity as that idea is conceived by Spinoza. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" His system in earlier life almost resembled pantheism, as in his praise of Spinoza. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion Except for the occasion when the de Witts were murdered, Spinoza never showed himself either unduly merry or unduly sad. The Philosophy of Spinoza Spinoza died on the 21st or 22nd of February, 1677, in his forty-fifth year, and was buried on the 25th of February at the Hague. Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers." Recurring to the austere theses of Spinoza, he sought to bring them into accord with a religion of emotion. The Religious Sentiment Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion At this point Spinoza takes up the argument. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" It is probable that the criticism commenced by R. Simon and Spinoza furnished hints for his views. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion Even when one Lambert de Velthuysen provoked his righteous indignation, Spinoza tempered his caustic reply before sending it off. The Philosophy of Spinoza We are not aware of any other translation of Spinoza's works except that of a small portion of his "Ethica," by Lewes. Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers." He ignored that inner drive which Spinoza called the conatus; or the seeds of Paracelsus or van Helmont; or the persistence over a time course of any "essence" or "form." Medical Investigation in Seventeenth Century England Papers Read at a Clark Library Seminar, October 14, 1967 The independence of individual finite things disappears whenever we substitute thought for imagination, but even to pure intelligence, extension remains extension, and thought remains Spinoza’s refuge from Descartes’ dualism. thought. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" This admission increased after the speculations of Spinoza and the pressure of the Deist objections. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion Spinoza has often been likened to the old Hebrew prophets. The Philosophy of Spinoza It will be necessary for the reader to remember that Spinoza commenced his philosophical studies at the same point with Descartes. Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers." This conception of Divine justice, not as a sentence of a judge, but as the action of an eternal law, is identical with Spinoza's. Bunyan From these premises it is easy to see what form the opposition of reason and passion must necessarily take with Spinoza. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" The remainder of the lecture is occupied with the treatment of the influence of Cartesianism, as seen in Spinoza. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion But the morality Spinoza stands for is the old prophetic morality purified and made consistent with itself. The Philosophy of Spinoza But while Descartes had, in some manner, fashioned a quality—God and God-created substance—Spinoza only found one, substance, the definition of which included existence. Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers." The great philosopher, Spinoza, has already demonstrated this truth in a masterly manner, and modern science confirms it in all respects. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study Unconsciously, Spinoza reproduces the principle of asceticism, while in words he utterly rejects it. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" The method is analogous to that of Spinoza, save that the infinite is studied dynamically instead of mechanically, as a movement not a substance, in time not in space. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion It seems Spinoza was betrayed into overt indiscretion by two fellow-students from the Synagogue, who asked for his opinion regarding the existence of angels, the corporeality of God and the immortality of the soul. The Philosophy of Spinoza There are also several spurious works ascribed to Spinoza. Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers." God, God—he was God-intoxicated, without Spinoza's calm or Spinoza's certainty. Dreamers of the Ghetto At this point, in short, the two opposite streams of Spinoza’s thought, the positive method he intends to pursue, and the negative or abstracting method he really does pursue, meet in irreconcilable contradiction. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" His name was Spinoza; he was a Portuguese pianist, and wore a tall, battered silk hat which he never removed, even in bed—so the town said. Melomaniacs Spinoza's answers were not complete, but incomplete as they were, they yet revealed a mind that was, to the faithful, shockingly astray from the orthodox path. The Philosophy of Spinoza Maccall does not see the utility of that very logic which compelled him to admit Spinoza's truth. Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers." He had found temporary peace with Spinoza's God: the eternal infinite-sided Being, of whom all the starry infinities were but one poor expression, and to love whom did not imply being loved in return. Dreamers of the Ghetto Spinoza gives the ultimate expression to this tendency, and at the same time marks its limit, when he says that whatever reality is in the finite is of the infinite. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" Spinoza, Kant, Galileo had all talked a language unintelligible to their contemporaries, and with how many had Nietzsche been able to converse? Mummery A Tale of Three Idealists Instead of returning to Spinoza they went to the authorities of the Synagogue. The Philosophy of Spinoza Spinoza's proposition is, that substances having nothing in common, cannot act on one another. Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers." And was not Spinoza as irrefutable as Euclid. Dreamers of the Ghetto The ethical philosophy of Spinoza is determined by the same principles and embarrassed by the same difficulties as his metaphysics. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" In the matter of public worship he was of the same opinion as Spinoza and many other philosophers. Benjamin Franklin When barely twenty-four years old, Spinoza found himself cut off from the race of Israel with all the prescribed curses of excommunication upon his head. The Philosophy of Spinoza Much has been said of Spinoza's "God" and "Divine Substance," and we must refer the reader to Definition Six, in which God is defined as being "infinite substance." Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers." Too often had he lost his temper—particularly when Spinoza was the theme—and had all but accused Mendelssohn of dishonesty. Dreamers of the Ghetto Or, to put the same thing in ethical language, Spinoza teaches a morality which is in every point the opposite of asceticism, a morality of self-assertion or self-seeking, and not of self-denial. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" In fact, Ward's logic would lead to Spinoza, not to the deity of Catholic belief. The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice Spinoza was not present when excommunication was pronounced upon him. The Philosophy of Spinoza But there are in politics certain eternal principles, and it is for setting forth and elucidating these that the Treatise of Spinoza is so valuable. Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers." Only not sublimely blurred as in Spinoza's, but specifically colored and infinitely interrelated, so that he might pass from the sublime to the ridiculous with an equal sense of its value in the cosmic scheme. Dreamers of the Ghetto It is the mark of an imperfect Spinoza’s higher idealsim. spiritualism to hide its eyes from outward nature, and to shrink from the material as impure and defiling. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" We should act in the spirit of Spinoza's great saying; and it should be our aim, as it was his care, "neither to mock, to bewail, nor to denounce men's actions, but to understand them". Social Rights and Duties, Volume I (of 2) Addresses to Ethical Societies Spinoza's accomplishment in his chosen trade was not merely practical. The Philosophy of Spinoza Lewes, in his seventh chapter on Modern Philosophy, thus sums up Spinoza's teachings and their result. Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers." He works out his thoughts best in mathematics—the Spinoza of socialism. Dreamers of the Ghetto Jacobi’s Letters on Spinoza, which were the beginning of a true interpretation of his philosophy, are still worth reading. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" Spinoza asserted that all things were alive in different degrees. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume I, No. 11, November, 1880 Of all the laws of the universe, it was Spinoza's chief object to discover the mental laws. The Philosophy of Spinoza The doctrine of Spinoza was of great importance, if for nothing more than having brought about the first crisis in modern philosophy. Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers." Spinoza allowed his standing desire to cough to find satisfaction. Dreamers of the Ghetto And Spinoza only wishes that the same universality and freedom of thought which belongs to mathematics, because its objects do not interest the passions, should be extended to those objects that do interest them. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" Webster defines the term thus: "One that believes the universe to be God; a name given to the followers of Spinoza." The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume I, No. 7, July, 1880 Mathematical physics gives us no more a picture of the actual physical universe than Spinoza's psychology gives us a picture of the mental and emotional life of an actual human being. The Philosophy of Spinoza In the glorious throng of heroic names, there are few nobler than Spinoza's. Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers." Spinoza's hand trembled in hers that gleamed snowily from the ruffled half-sleeve; the soft warmth burnt away philosophy. Dreamers of the Ghetto Spinoza follows to its legitimate result the metaphysical or logical principles of Descartes and Malebranche. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" Her translation of Spinoza’s “Ethics” was finished the same year, but remains unpublished. The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete The far-reaching significance of Spinoza's propositions is one of their most remarkable characteristics. The Philosophy of Spinoza The "Treatise on Politics" is not Spinoza's greatest work; it is, in all respects, inferior to the "Ethics," and to the "Theologico-Political Treatise." Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers." But fancy Spinoza leading a people; and even Spinoza had more glow. Dreamers of the Ghetto This parallelism may be best illustrated by Spinoza’s account of the relation of the human soul and body. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" Spinoza has summed up the truth in saying—"The highest good is common to all, and all may equally enjoy it." The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production And with Spinoza, as with the Freudians, it sometimes seems that desire is more fundamental than the other two, for desire expresses, in Spinoza's terminology, the essence of man. The Philosophy of Spinoza Spinoza is scarcely likely to become a great favorite with the "Woman's Rights Convention." Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers." Alas! my curses were more potent than those of the Rabbis against Spinoza, and this disease was sent me to destroy such backbone as I had. Dreamers of the Ghetto What is most remarkable in Spinoza is just the freedom and security with which these principles are followed out to their last result. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" Praise has been bestowed upon Spinoza because he showed that moral distinctions are annihilated by the scheme of necessity. The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election It is not altogether fortuitously that Spinoza's psychology embraces so readily contemporary psychological conceptions. The Philosophy of Spinoza Since the days of Spinoza's essay at rationalistic explanation, Bible criticism has been the wrestling-ground of the most extravagant exegesis, of bold hypotheses, and hazardous conjectures. Jewish Literature and Other Essays A parrot from the Brazils screamed, but Spinoza only heard the soft "Yes, father," that came sweetly from some upper region. Dreamers of the Ghetto To the heat of passion and the higher heat of imagination, Spinoza has only one advice—“Acquaint yourself with God and be at peace.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" In this particular, as well as in most others, Spinoza merely reproduces the error of the ancient Stoics. A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory But Spinoza's God is not even as human as this. The Philosophy of Spinoza But in the hands of such men as Abraham Herrera, who influenced Benedict Spinoza, even Kabbalistic studies were informed with a scientific spirit, and brought into connection with Neoplatonic philosophy. Jewish Literature and Other Essays Desirous to write down what was in his mind, Spinoza turned from the sea and pursued his peaceful path homewards. Dreamers of the Ghetto To do justice to Spinoza, therefore, we must distinguish between the actual effect of his logic and its effect as he conceived it. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" If any praise, then, be due to Spinoza for such triumphs of the reasoning power, it should be given, not to the superiority of his logic, but to the apathy of his moral sentiments. A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory Baruch de Spinoza was born into the Jewish community of Amsterdam on November 24, 1632. The Philosophy of Spinoza Such love, intellectual love, which Benedict Spinoza was the first to define from a scientific and philosophic point of view, looks far down the vistas of the future, and gives providential thought to the race. Jewish Literature and Other Essays Spinoza started from his reverie: his doublet was wet with dew, he felt the mist in his throat. Dreamers of the Ghetto Spinoza’s deliberate and formal doctrine is undoubtedly the latter; but he constantly employs expressions which imply the former, as when he speaks of God as causa sui. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" The wonder is, not that Spinoza should have drawn such an inference, but that any one should fail to draw it. A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory An anonymous German taught Spinoza the rudiments of the language that was to enable him to enter into the important current of modern ideas especially embodied in the philosophy of Descartes. The Philosophy of Spinoza When the proposed subject was submitted to the French minister of instruction, he probably asked himself the same question; but he was not at a loss for an answer; he simply substituted Spinoza for Maimonides. Jewish Literature and Other Essays "Here I lodge to-night," said Spinoza quietly, "if there be any law in Holland." Dreamers of the Ghetto Spinoza points out that there is no ground for such a distinction, that the acts of apprehension and judgment cannot be separated from each other. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" It is shown by Spinoza, that all moral distinctions vanish before the iron scheme of necessity. A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory But Spinoza was not deterred by the possible social consequences of his search for knowledge and truth. The Philosophy of Spinoza |
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