foundation for knowledge‚ every academic endeaver begins to collapse. 3. What is Rationalism? Rationalism is the part of philosophy that our foundation for knowledge is found within reason. 4. Who are the three main Rationalists and where did they come from? Rene Descartes‚ Baruch Spinoza‚ Gottfried Leibniz. Descartes was French and from the Dutch Republic. Spinoza was Jewish-Dutch‚ from Amsterdam. As for Leibniz‚ is German and was born in Leipzig‚ Saxony. 5. Peter Unger uses a hypothetical
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“Introduction to the Critical Study of Biblical Literature” Critical Reading Exercise #1 Reading Spinoza on Studying the Bible Instructions: The following questions are designed to help you discover some of the most important points in your reading selection. The questions follow the basic course of the article excerpts. 1) At whom‚ what category of persons‚ is Spinoza “mad?” Spinoza is "mad" at those people in organized religions whose only aim is obdience and to "compel others to
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Rationalism Explanation According to the text‚ ”Rationalism is a doctrine which gives the discursive reason as the only possible source of all real knowledge. According to Louis-Marie Morfaux‚ rationalism takes in all doctrines that attribute to human reason the capacity to know and establish the truth.” Leibniz‚ in his “Essays on Theodicy” (1710)‚ formulated in the following way:“Nothing happens without a cause or at the very least‚ a determined reason” “All that is real is rational and all that
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Rationalism vs. Irrationalism Jane Evans was spending a week at the Crown Point Ward girls camp. She and her friends were laughing and enjoying the crisp night air. They giggled and talked of crushes on boys and gossiped all night about the notorious girls at school. But the fun stopped when a rat bit one of the girls. Screaming‚ squirming and frightened‚ they worried and stayed awake for the remainder of the night. Unable to sleep‚ they decided to go indoors‚ to avoid another
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Born on July 1‚ 1646 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz started his journey of contributions to mathematics and philosophy in Leipzig‚ Germany. Born shortly after the Thirty Year’s War‚ which left Germany in ruins‚ he was born into a pious Lutheran family. Before he was six years of age‚ Gottfried lost his father‚ Friedrich Leibniz‚ a professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Leipzig‚ and he was sent to an insufficient school. However‚ due to his father’s extensive library‚ he was able to educate
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21‚ 2013 Baruch Spinoza “I call him free who is led solely by reason.” Part 1 Baruch Spinoza was born in Amsterdam‚ while the exact day is unknown‚ we know he was born sometime in 1632. He attended Talmud Torah School‚ where he was taught the fundamentals of how to be considered an upright Jewish man. His family were Marranos (forced converts to Christianity) who fled their original country of Portugal to escape the inquisition. (Honderich 545) His mother‚ Hannah Spinoza died when Baruch
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Ben Jorgensen Professor Wakefield English 5 3 April 2013 The Influence of Rationalism on the French Revolution What was the driving force behind the French Revolution? Many people may say it was financial‚ or political‚ and while I would agree that these things were part of the force that propelled the French Revolution‚ I would assert that the philosophies of the Enlightenment were the dominant force that blasted late eighteenth century France into revolution . In his article‚ “The French
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well as seven axioms at the very beginning of his work. These definitions and axioms are set up in a way in which Spinoza can formulate arguments for the proof of the propositions he later presents. One of the definitions I found surprising was the fourth one‚ which states “By attribute I mean that which the intellect perceives of substance as constituting its essence.” (pg. 31 Spinoza)‚which is found in the beginning of Spinoza’s ethics. Based off his definition it can be found that it is not completely
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Rationalism vs. Empiricism First published Thu Aug 19‚ 2004; substantive revision Thu Mar 21‚ 2013 The dispute between rationalism and empiricism concerns the extent to which we are dependent upon sense experience in our effort to gain knowledge. Rationalists claim that there are significant ways in which our concepts and knowledge are gained independently of sense experience. Empiricists claim that sense experience is the ultimate source of all our concepts and knowledge. Rationalists generally
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Gottfried Leibniz Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz was born in 1646 to Catharina Schmuck‚ an extremely religious being‚ and Friedrich Leibniz‚ a moral philosophy professor at Leipzig. Gottfried grew up with a religious and moral value set environment. Those values were an important contribution to Gottfried’s philosophy and life in the future. Leibniz was a German philosopher and mathematician. With Leibniz’s ideas and theories‚ he became a prominent figure in mathematics and was a major mathematician
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