B. SPINOZA IN THE HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL CONTEXT: PROCEEDING FROM R. DESCARTES
Vasiliy Pavlovich Goran
Institute of Philosophy and Law, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 8, Nikolaev st., 630090, Novosibirsk,Russia
Keywords: Спиноза, Декарт, дуализм, монизм, материализм, идеализм, религия, пантеизм, тело, душа, свобода, Spinoza, Descartes, dualism, monism, materialism, idealism, religion, pantheism, body, soul, freedom
Abstract
The article compares Spinoza’s and Descartes’ positions regarding the problems which they solve both partially similarly and in a considerable different way. This made it possible to reveal the trend in the development of Spinoza’s philosophical thought when proceeding from Descartes’ position. The main thing in this trend is that Spinoza rejects Descartes’ dualistic combination of the materialistic orientation based on achievements in science with the commitment to the Christian religion and therefore to philosophical idealism. In Spinoza’s philosophy, its monistic character goes with the predominance of materialistic orientation. At the same time, it is recognized that there is only the predominance of the latter and not the final overcoming of religiousness and idealism.
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