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Anthony Quinton on Spinoza and Leibniz: Section 4

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The ideas of rationalist philosophers Baruch Spinoza and Gottfried Leibniz are examined in this program by philosophy Anthony Quinton. Spinoza favors a pantheistic God who has matter and mind as two attributes, and who is the ultimate substance and explanation of the world. Leibniz sees the real world as consisting of an infinity of things purely spiritual, where everything, including space, is a phenomenon—a by-product of areal world with an infinite array of spiritual centers. Both philosophers construct a world that is very different form what the average person perceives, and both reject Cartesian duality.

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  • 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.

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

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  • my mind is stretching shrinking squashing this is awesome

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

  • 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.

  • thanks to whom posted these videos of Bryan Magee they are really good, and wish happy and long life to Bryan.

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

  • 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.

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

  • don't project fundamentalism onto leibniz

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