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Spinoza’s God as Nature: an engineer’s reading of Ethics Part I
I came to the Ethics (published 1677, after Spinoza's death) because of the geometrical form: definitions, axioms, propositions, demonstrations. It looks like a specification document. Part I argues that substance is what…
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René Descartes
French philosopher and mathematician, educated at the Jesuit college of La Flèche, who spent most of his working life in the Dutch Republic. He…
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Baruch Spinoza
Dutch philosopher from Amsterdam's Portuguese-Jewish community who was expelled from the synagogue in 1656 and earned his living partly as a lens grinder. His…