The Jowett Society (Friday - Week 4, MT18)

Philosophical Society

SPINOZA AND OUR ONTOLOGICAL DEMOTION Spinoza thinks that human beings are not substances but rather modes (or perhaps a combination of two modes). Why does he hold such a strange position? Why should we care whether we are substances or modes?.

 

Jowett Society Organising Committee: Harry Alanen, Christopher Benzenberg, Sara Chan, Sean Costello, Alastair Criag, Katherine Hong, Sebastian Liu, Chiara Martini, Arnaud Petit, Beatriz Santos and Lewis Wang.  |

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