Spinoza had but one desire, to reduce the chaos of the world to unity and order.Draws a very important distinction between "temporal order" (the world of things and incidents) and the "eternal order" (world of laws and structure).Enjoy only pleasures which are necessary for the preservation of health and seek only enough money as is necessary for your life and health.Only knowledge is power and freedom and the only permanent happiness is the pursuit of knowledge and the joy of understanding.The greatest good is the knowledge of the union which the mind has with the whole of nature.Does not accept the divinity of Christ but is "first among men".Makes no separation between the Old and New Testaments and sees Judaism and Christianity as one.Portuguese Jew who was excommunicated due to his beliefs.Knowledge is power, not mere argument or ornament it is not an opinion to be held.but a word to be done and I.am laboring to lay the foundation not of any sect or doctrine, but of utility and power."
"It would differ from every other philosophy in aiming at practice rather than at theory, at specific concrete goods rather than at speculative symmetry. Besides Aristotle, the Great Reconstruction of Philosophy (Magna Instauratio) was the greatest work in the history of thought. Undertook one of the greatest enterprises in history.Aristotle's motto - nil admirari (admire nothing).Socrates gave mankind philosophy and Aristotle science.Many of his ideas were flawed but they were so wide ranging and influential that they are the platform which others have built off of Aristotle contributed more to mankind's intellect than any other person in history.Each man will perform the function for which he is best suited and shall receive the equivalent of what he produces.Only three things worthwhile in this world - justice, beauty and truth.Human behavior flows from 3 main sources - desire, emotion and knowledge.
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