11.13.08

Spinoza, deus sive natura

Posted in atheism at 9:19 pm by nemo

Comment on Atheists and morality

James said,
November 13, 2008 at 9:02 pm
You can also bring in Spinoza’s ethical system just for the purpose of illustrating that the current theism/atheism debate causes us to limit ourselves perceptually (ignore whether his system has any merit or not). It’s quite clear that he isn’t using “God” in the same sense as the theist and yet he constructs an ethical system based on “God.” Here is a brief summary:

http://www.angelfire.com/md2/timewarp/spinoza.html

Excellent point.

2 Comments »

  1. James said,

    November 14, 2008 at 11:56 am

    A more interesting question is whether Schopenhauer would be considered an “atheist” by the standards of these Darwiniana/scientistic atheists.

  2. James said,

    November 14, 2008 at 11:57 am

    “Darwinian” I mean.

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