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Substance as the Main Structural Component in the Development of Human Free Will in Spinoza’s Philosophy

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Mohammad Malla
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Mohammad Malla
Available Online 4 September 2021.
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10.2991/assehr.k.210902.016How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Ethics, God, Substance, Nature, Will, Freedom, Soul
Abstract

The article concerns the problem of substance and its development in the philosophical system of Spinoza. The article deals with the dialectic of the existence of free will in the religious philosophy of Spinoza. The author analyzes the nature of substance and its influence on the development of the free will concept, and also concerns the idea of the unity of substance as a community of the generative nature and the generated nature. The central position of Spinoza’s philosophical system is the identity of God and Nature (pantheism). Spinoza’s most famous ethical postulate is “Freedom is a conscious necessity.” In the philosophy of Spinoza, the problem of free will is related to the problem of substance. The relation between free will and substance is Spinoza’s main method in his study of human existence. In the article it would be pointed that Spinoza considered substance to be God, and substance consists attributes, thus, attribute is one of the forms of substance. Then the important idea is that one of the most important characteristics of substance is thinking and extension. Thinking is an attribute of God, in other words, God is a thinking thing.

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Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Humanities. (Philosophy of Being Human as the Core of Interdisciplinary Research) (ICCESSH 2021)
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Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
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4 September 2021
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978-94-6239-425-4
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2352-5398
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10.2991/assehr.k.210902.016How to use a DOI?
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