We all know people that we know and just get on with, but who is your favourite person who you get on with and why, and what sort of ideology do you most associate with some guy and why?
Why do you personally most closely get on with x philosopher, and or why do you not get on with y philosopher? Intrigued to know…
I like David Lewis because he’s thorough and complex. I don’t like Nietzsche for the same reason I don’t like Phish. That reason? Because the fans ruin it for normal people.
Ierrellus
December 1, 2013, 2:43pm
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My favorite philosopher Spinoza because he attempted to demolish Cartesian dualism. My religious and scientific views allign with his.
Ierrellus
December 1, 2013, 3:02pm
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Helandhighwater:
The archetypal agnostic…
How could one writing about the constituents of God be considered an atheist? Spinoza was a pantheist.
Ierrellus
December 1, 2013, 3:08pm
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No, Spinoza was not a deist. Google pantheism.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandeism
Spinoza argued that God exists and is abstract and impersonal.[1] Spinoza’s system imparted order and unity to the tradition of radical thought, offering powerful weapons for prevailing against “received authority.” As a youth he first subscribed to Descartes’s dualistic belief that body and mind are two separate substances, but later changed his view and asserted that they were not separate, being a single entity. He contended that everything that exists in Nature (i.e., everything in the Universe) is one Reality (substance) and there is only one set of rules governing the whole of the reality which surrounds us and of which we are part. Spinoza viewed God and Nature as two names for the same reality,[76] namely a single, fundamental substance (meaning “that which stands beneath” rather than “matter”) that is the basis of the universe and of which all lesser “entities” are actually modes or modifications, that all things are determined by Nature to exist and cause effects, and that the complex chain of cause and effect is understood only in part. His identification of God with nature was more fully explained in his posthumously published Ethics.[1] Spinoza’s main contention with Cartesian mind-body dualism was that, if mind and body were truly distinct, then it is not clear how they can coordinate in any manner. That humans presume themselves to have free will, he argues, is a result of their awareness of appetites which affect their minds while being unable to understand the reasons why they want and act as they do. Spinoza has been described by one writer as an “Epicurean materialist,”[76] although to call Spinoza a materialist (as the Epicureans were) would be misleading as he treats both thought (the realm of the mind and thought) and extension (physical reality) as derivatives of an ultimate, infinite substance (Deus sive Natura, or God) which expresses infinite attributes and modes. To use an example, human experience is but a single drop of water in an infinite ocean which constitutes existence.
Faust
December 1, 2013, 3:44pm
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Dan~, because he is usually correct.