Anthony Quinton on Spinoza and Leibniz: Section 4

[daniel246]

my mind is stretching shrinking squashing this is awesome

[MrFriendsterboy]

these two philosophers leibniz and spinoza are the main influences of process philosophy of whitehead and hartshorne on God and the World

[breaneainn]

interesting that these ideas are reflected in the philosophical boundaries of theoretical physics. a discrete universe is at odds with the non locality demonstrated by quantum mechanics.

[zmanko]

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[examinfo]

Spinoza's idea of God seems somewhat similar to Thomas Aquinas.

[nattedelagrace]

who taught you that? go back to school...

[SanGuevara]

Thanks for uploading this. I've been studying Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz for a philosophy test, and sometimes the text can drive me insane. It's nice to hear other people talk about the subject matter in ways that I can (mostly) understand.

[codpiecfish]

don't project fundamentalism onto leibniz

[kesmit3]

haha, Classic: "In so far as it IS a solution, it is more like winning at chess by kicking the table over."

Nice

[MaBu888]

God-centrism might get us stuck and has... god did it... LOL. I think things did things, though, however, search for the concept of holons for what I think...

[aforsy]

I can't help but correlate Leibniz's Monads with atoms/particles, and suppose that the history of the Monads' perceptions is related with Quantum Entanglement. Very interesting stuff.

[Kitsua]

I agree. Leibniz's idea of a 'discrete' universe is very, very close to the fundamental concepts of quantum mechanics. A philosopher hundreds of years ahead of his time.