1. Not just another Italian sandwich...
Baruch Spinoza
Not just another Italian sandwich...

2. The Ultimate Throw-down Who will emerge the victor????
Vs. Stromboli...
Spinoza...
The Ultimate Throw-down
Who will emerge the victor????

3. 1632-1677 Follows Descartes Jewish (crypto-Jews)
Critical Interpetation of Bible
Theological-Political Treatise (1670)
Jesus’ teachings centered on Love
Supported free speech and religious tolerance

4. Spinoza’s Big Ideas:
“Substance”
sub specie aeternitatis
Ethics

5. Spinoza and Substance sandwich with a side of rationalism, please.
rationalist
pantheist
“monist” --God/Nature/Substance as one
your nostril hair
God’s 2 attributes: connection to Descartes’ thought and extension
God as inner cause of everything
Free will(ie)?
Determinist
Everything happens out of necessity
Spinoza and Substance sandwich with a side of rationalism, please.

6. Sooo...who wins?
Clearly, Spinoza’s ideas are slightly more complex that the multi-layered Italian burrito- type action.

7. sub specie aeternitatis (from the persoective of eternity)
Spinoza believed that everything and everyone belonged to “Substance,” and God was not in everything, He was everything. So….what does that mean?
See reality as God sees it
Recognize our place in larger whole
“Comprehend everything that exists in all-embracing perception.”
Hilarious Spinoza monument

8. “...the art of living and moral conduct.”
Published after his death
Free ourselves from feelings and passions (_______ much?)
Follow our nature
moral responsibility-- “considering the travails of humanity from the perspective of the whole of reality” to help us understand our place in it
See everything from the perspective of eternity
Ethics
“...the art of living and moral conduct.”