Essays Tagged: "Baruch Spinoza"

Is there a God or is HE (?) an illusion?

Topic: Philosophy of ReligionThesis: Is there a God or is He(?) an illusion?Bibliography:Benedict Spinoza - rationalistFreidrick Schleiermacher - religionSigmund Freud - atheistAn illusion is one's ...

(1 pages) 127 1 3.2 Mar/1997

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Classical Philosophy

Freewill and determinism conflict (choice)

eves that people believe they are free only because they're ignorant of thecauses of their actions. Spinoza makes that point when he says, "Men are deceived inthinking themselves free, a belief that c ... capacity to free himself from thebondage of ignorance and emotional impulses and come to agree with Spinoza, then thiswould seem to be a very significant type of freedom. So it can be concluded that S ...

(4 pages) 267 0 3.0 Jan/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

Descartes and how he came to his conclusions on the existence of the world. This was originally used for a presentation.

approach has had an influence on many philosophers after him, the most noted being:·Benedict Spinoza who struggled to find a way to present his rationalistic conviction that the universe is a u ...

(2 pages) 210 3 4.2 Jan/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy

Arabia vs. Europe. Who were the true occasionalists?

y praising God. So I presume that both Eastern occasionalists discussed earlier, held these beliefs.Baruch Spinoza can be described in a single word: "extremist". On viewing his philosophic beliefs, I ...

(6 pages) 50 0 3.8 Apr/2003

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

The title of my paper is "Religious Superstition and Prejudice".

s obvious as, say the racial discriminations of the '60s, this is an example of brute prejudice.For Spinoza, the primary cause of prejudice is man's "doctrine of ends". On page 439 of Ethics, Spinoza ... ount of an end...". Men suppose that all natural things act on account of some end directed by God. Spinoza believes this takes away the perfection of God, "For if God acts for the sake of an end, he ...

(5 pages) 60 0 5.0 Nov/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

The essay is about why the balance-of-power sytem is the most stable geopolitical system. The essay is enitiled The Balance-Of-Power System.

Baruch Spinoza once said, "Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a dispos ...

(3 pages) 27 0 3.0 Feb/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays

Title: Mind and Body: An interpretation on the works of Rene Descartes and Benedictus de Spinoza -Talks about "Dualism" and "Double Aspect Theory"

iew in perspective. Two philosophers who argue over this topic are Rene Descartes and Benedictus de Spinoza. Descartes was one of the few early thinkers to dissect and assess the mind/body problem wit ... ess the mind/body problem with his argument for dualism. In contrast to Descartes was Benedictus de Spinoza who provides a counter-example to Descartes' "dualism," namely what is known as the "double ...

(5 pages) 143 0 5.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy

Terrorist suspects held in Guantánamo Bay

." But is there such a thing as a "legal black hole"? I submit that there is not. As a corollary to Baruch Spinoza's postulate that "nature abhors a vacuum," I would submit that law abhors black holes ...

(10 pages) 175 1 4.3 Apr/2004

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights

Does morality need God?

ous 18th-century philosopher Immanuel Kant considered 1 i th-century Jewish rationalist philosopher Baruch Spinoza to be such a person. But because saintly atheists live better than they believe, says ...

(4 pages) 92 0 3.8 Apr/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Wittgenstein and Russel biographies

ditary insanity, a specter that haunted Russell's imagination all his life. After a flirtation with Baruch Spinoza's pantheism and a spell of allegiance to Friedrich Hegel's Absolute Idealism, by 1898 ...

(14 pages) 47 0 0.0 Nov/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Existence of God Benedict De S

Existence of God Benedict De Spinoza vs. Rene Descartes In Spinoza's view God is a substance that includes eternal attrib ... istence for existence is just one of the perfections that God has. This in its nature is similar to Spinoza's view. However, unlike Descartes, Spinoza explains why God essence must involve existence a ... God essence must involve existence and provides more convincing proofs for God's existence. In fact Spinoza's reasoning of thought is basically based on his first reasonable-to-believe propositions ab ...

(8 pages) 20 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy

Briefly introduce the Enlightenment (one paragraph) and then discuss the major intellectual changes that led to the Enlightenment.

y important figures who contributed to the enlightenment through their ideas and written documents. Baruch Spinoza was a Dutch philosopher who is considered to have laid the groundwork for the 18th ce ...

(1 pages) 27 1 5.0 Nov/2008

Subjects: History Term Papers