SPINOZA’S CONCEPT OF SUBSTANCE: ORIGINS OF ITS FORMation
Tatyana Yurievna Sedychenko
Institute of Philosophy and Law, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 8, Nikolaev st., Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
Keywords: субстанция, бог, природа, антирелигиозная позиция, рационализм, монизм, дуализм, протяжение, мышление, единство, substance, god, nature, anti-religious position, rationalism, monism, dualism, extension, thinking, unity
Abstract
The article considers how Spinoza developed his conception of the essence of substance. We show the reasons for his anti-religious position and reveal the philosopher’s view of the nature of transcendence of substance. We trace how Spinoza eliminated the Cartesian dualism and came to ontological monism. We show that Spinoza’s concepts of substance, nature and god are equally important and identical, but it is the concept of substance that plays a key role in his philosophy. The concept of god used by Spinoza has nothing in common with traditional ideas of god.
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