ENLIGHTENMENT AND MODERNITY?

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ENLIGHTENMENT AND MODERNITY?

• Jonathan Davies
• Powerpoint will be on the website

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Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677)
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Albert Einstein, On Spinozas Ethics How much
do I love that noble man, more than I could say
with words.
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Baruch Spinoza, Ethica Ordine Geometrico
demonstrata(Amsterdam, 1677)
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All the prejudices I here undertake to expose
depend on this one that men commonly suppose
that all natural things act, as men do, on
account of an end indeed, they maintain as
certain that God himself directs all things to
some certain end, for they say that God has made
all things for man, and man that he might worship
God. Spinoza, Ethics (Amsterdam, 1677), I,
Appendix.
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Sir Isaac Newton (1643-1727)
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Isaac Newton, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia
Mathematica (1687)
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This most beautiful system of the sun, planets,
and comets could only proceed from the counsel
and dominion of an intelligent and powerful
Being Gravity explains the motions of the
planets, but it cannot explain who set the
planets in motion. God governs all things and
knows all that is or can be done.Isaac Newton,
Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica
(1687)
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John Locke (1632-1704)
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John Locke, Two Treatises of Government (1689)