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- From: torkel@sics.se (Torkel Franzen)
- Subject: Re: Ethics -- a quest
- In-Reply-To: simonson@cs.washington.edu's message of Wed, 29 Jul 92 15:04:08 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.153229.5002@sics.se>
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- Organization: Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Kista
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- <1992Jul29.150408.5032@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 15:32:29 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul29.150408.5032@beaver.cs.washington.edu> simonson@cs.
- washington.edu (Kevin Simonson) writes:
-
- >Andrew, did Spinoza make any mention in "Ethics" of his reasons for
- >bringing up God in a treatment of the subject?
-
- It's not a matter of "bringing up God" in a treatment of the subject of
- ethics. God was fundamental to Spinoza's argument, and to learn what he
- meant by ethics you must turn to his writings. All simple descriptions
- of Spinoza's philosophy - e.g. that his God was a personification of the
- forces of nature - are grossly misleading.
-