Spinozism

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• In the study of action, Blondel finds the necessary correction for the two intellectualist assumptions present in Spinozism.

  Academic text (1993)

• While unsatisfactory as a historical account, this overview is nevertheless very revealing of what Blondel considered the contribution of his own philosophy of action as a philosophy of religion, particularly when linked to his much more thorough study of the evolution of Spinozism in modern thought, which we shall examine below, where he treats many of the same questions.

  Academic text (1993)

• Although Spinozism had, in a sense, come to its logical term in Hegel, its influence continued to bear fruit in other forms.

  Academic text (1993)

• For Blondel, this weakness created a fundamental instability in Spinozism, yet one which permitted "the long and rich evolution of thought of which it was the point of departure."

  Academic text (1993)

• Leibniz's philosophy, thus, can be seen as a dialectical development of Spinoza's, which may, as is the way of dialectic, lead some of us back to a revised version of Spinozism. 17

  Academic text (1998)

• In considering duty as an absolute, in affirming the autonomy of the will, in erecting above the analytic procedures of the understanding the synthetic workings of practical reason, Kant does nothing other than take as the principle of an original system the postulate that remained hidden at the heart of Spinozism.

  Academic text (1993)

• In the article "One of the Sources of Modern Thought: The Evolution of Spinozism," Blondel weaves together a review of Delbos's book, The Moral Problem in the Philosophy of Spinoza and in the History of Spinozism, with an exposition of his own thoughts on the development of modern philosophy in a way that makes it difficult to see where Delbos's analysis ends and Blondel's own ideas begin.

  Academic text (1993)

• In the article "One of the Sources of Modern Thought: The Evolution of Spinozism," Blondel weaves together a review of Delbos's book, The Moral Problem in the Philosophy of Spinoza and in the History of Spinozism, with an exposition of his own thoughts on the development of modern philosophy in a way that makes it difficult to see where Delbos's analysis ends and Blondel's own ideas begin.

  Academic text (1993)

• Spinozism emphasizes that God and the universe are one and the same.

• The idea of unity in Spinozism suggests that everything is interconnected in a single substance.

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