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Baruch Spinoza

Audiobook

A Portuguese Jew living in Holland, Spinoza was excommunicated because of the unorthodox view he took of God. Spinoza wrote in the rationalist style of a geometric proof to develop his idea of God as the infinite, indwelling cause of all things, a unified causal system that is virtually synonymous with nature. In this system, there is no free will, for all things are necessary and inevitable, and all objects, including humans, are part of God's active self-expression. Human fulfillment is possible, he believed, only by rejecting our finite, flawed selves and identifying with the eternal within us.


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Series: The Giants of Philosophy Publisher: Blackstone Publishing Edition: Unabridged

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  • ISBN: 9781481538541
  • File size: 64066 KB
  • Release date: April 24, 2006
  • Duration: 02:13:28

MP3 audiobook

  • ISBN: 9781481538541
  • File size: 64152 KB
  • Release date: July 18, 2006
  • Duration: 02:13:28
  • Number of parts: 2

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Languages

English

Levels

Text Difficulty:11-12

A Portuguese Jew living in Holland, Spinoza was excommunicated because of the unorthodox view he took of God. Spinoza wrote in the rationalist style of a geometric proof to develop his idea of God as the infinite, indwelling cause of all things, a unified causal system that is virtually synonymous with nature. In this system, there is no free will, for all things are necessary and inevitable, and all objects, including humans, are part of God's active self-expression. Human fulfillment is possible, he believed, only by rejecting our finite, flawed selves and identifying with the eternal within us.


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