ellauri048.html on line 731: the presentation of female sexuality as punishing and metaphysically devoid of value.
ellauri151.html on line 529: Leibnizian problematic: God’s metaphysically constrained choice beteween the best vs pointless evils. Voltaire got a lot of laughs from it.
ellauri158.html on line 44: Spinoza’s views on necessity and possibility, which he claimed were the “principal foundation” of his Ethics (Ep75), have been less than well received by his readers, to put it mildly. From Spinoza’s contemporaries to our own, readers of the Ethics have denounced Spinoza’s views on modality as metaphysically confused at best, ethically nihilistic at worst. Kristityt on aina vihanneet Spinozaa, mutta niin on juutalaisetkin. Siili ressu.
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