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Ethics (Spinoza)

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Spinoza’s Ethics connects substance, necessity and human affects. Its demanding premises matter to the claim that understanding can change how a person acts.

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Guided course · Module 9 · Lesson 49
One nature or many substances?
Spinoza argues for one substance, God or Nature, and Leibniz for many monads. For Spinoza, understanding might increase freedom within a necessary order.