Deus sive Natura: Asserting the Spinozist View of Substance over that of the Cartesian
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https://doi.org/10.70042/eroth/50164Keywords:
Metaphysics, Epistemology, Substance, Spinoza, DescartesAbstract
As understood by the philosopher Spinoza there is only one substance, Deus sive Natura, God, or Nature. Antithetically appears the philosopher Descartes, who we may claim ascribed to the view that there were at least three substances, God, mind, and the body. First, this brief essay will reflect on both the Spinozist and Cartesian view of substance, as found in Spinoza’s Ethics and Descartes’s Meditations on First Philosophy. Finally, this concise article will close by asserting Spinoza’s view of substance over that of Descartes; for, Spinoza’s understanding of substance avoids unnecessary problems arising from the Cartesian system’s assertions regarding the same.
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