Martin Butler's Negative Philosophy

Martin Butler's Negative Philosophy

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Spinoza's Amoral World

Spinoza's Amoral World

Intelligently seek your own advantage; this is Spinoza's one moral code.

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Nature (or God) does not frown on strife, or hatred, or anger, or deceit, or on anything at all urged by appetite. - Spinoza

Spinoza resolved the debate that had raged for millennia on the nature of morality with a very swift fatal blow to the whole convoluted issue. In a nutshell, Spinoza says that what is good is what is good for you, and what is bad i…

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