Spinoza

Question 0

Pantheist

Answer 0

God is in all things

Question 1

Spinoza

Answer 1

Denied common religion
The key to virtue was a proper knowledge and operation of the mind.
The primary source of ill is human emotional life (drama)

Question 2

Determinist

Answer 2

That which happens, happens necessarily

Question 3

What was his salvation

Answer 3

The intellectual love of God

Get away from cultural conditioning. Look around

Question 4

Desires people want

Answer 4

Sensual-does not satisfy. Disappoints,captivates, leave depressed
Riches- consumed, overtaken,saddened by failures
Fame-subject to external taste of others

Question 5

Highest form of knowledge

Answer 5

Intuition
Above belief and imagination, science and knowledge
Equates this to know/living God

Question 6

Commencing the path

Answer 6

Path itself transforms you

Arrive at a stable character. Arrive at knowledge of union between the mine and the whole of nature.

Question 7

Humans are born _____

Answer 7

Ignorant. Assume without evidence that God is the dictator of life
Ignore all evidence that God is a kind provider.