The author draws a parallel between the Stoics? and Spinoza?s understanding of moral good values in general, their ?living agreement with nature?. It is indicated that difference Stoics Spinoza slight when it comes to issues discussed this paper. Spinoza, like Stoics, held could be merely useful found

In this article I dispute the claim, made by several contemporary scholars, that Spinoza was a naturalist. ‘Naturalism’ here refers to two distinct but related positions in contemporary philosophy. The first, ontological naturalism, is the view that everything that exists possesses a certain character (variously defined) permitting it to be defined as natural and prohibiting it from being defin...

the proofs of god's existence are among the main questions of philosophers. this question has a special importance in spinoza's works, because it constitutes the basis of his philosophy. in his main work, ethics, he initiates the discussion with the definition of god and ends it up with man's noblest happiness, namely love of god. he deals with the issue in his different works an...

Can we know that nothing is in itself both thinking and spatially extended?1 This was among the most central and divisive philosophical issues of the early modern period, one with obvious relevance not only to the theoretical understanding of mind and matter, but also to the practical prospects for immortality and, with it, divine sanctions for morality. While many important philosophers—includ...

The Lords of the Ma’amad, having long known of the evil opinions and acts of Baruch de Spinoza, they have endeavored by various means and promises, to turn him from his evil ways. But having failed to make him mend his wicked ways, and, on the contrary, daily receiving more and more serious information about the abominable heresies which he practiced and taught and about his monstrous deeds, an...

Our mobile robot Spinoza embodies a sophisticated real time vision system for control of a mobile robot in a dynamic environment The complexity of our robot architecture arises from the wide variety of tasks that need to be performed and the resulting chal lenge of coordinating multiple distributed concurrent processes on a diverse range of processor architec tures including Transputers digital...

The connection between French philosopher Gilles Deleuze and Italian political theorist Antonio Negri has drawn attention in academic publications over the last decade. For both thinkers, the philosophical concept of immanence is central to how both respectively conceptualize the world. However, in order to consider their work with regard to a metaphysical grounding, one may benefit from turnin...

Negri celebrates a conception of democracy in which the concrete powers of individual humans are not alienated away, but rather are added together: this is a democracy of the multitude. But how can the multitude act without alienating anyone’s power? To answer this difficulty, Negri explicitly appeals to Spinoza. Nonetheless, in this paper, I argue that Spinoza’s philosophy does not support Neg...

In this paper I have approached Spinoza's arguments for the existence of God from a somewhat unusual angle. In philosophy it is customary to consider an argument and give reasons for accepting or rejecting it in part or wholly. If I were to fall in line with the traditional method of discussing philosophical problems I would be content to point out that, in my opinion, Spinoza's arguments fail ...