Lexicon of Arguments

 

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Spinoza/Adorno: Spinoza is the extreme opposite to an idealistic thought which does not antithetically oppose thinking and being, but reflects this antithesis once more in itself.
>Idealism, >B. Spinoza.
Order/Spinoza/Adorno: Spinoza has the one - as Kant would have said - dogmatic presupposition that everything follows from a principle. He himself did not derive this presupposition further, but referred it to the axioms and definitions. He could then simply formulate the identity theorem so that the order of ideas and the order of things would be the same.
>Reality/Spinoza.
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Spinoza/SpinozaVsHobbes/Adorno: Spinoza's unfinished late work, the "political treatise"⁽¹⁾, was a direct response to Hobbes's anti-rationalist and thus anti-systematic impulse.
>Rationalism.
Hobbes/Adorno: Spinoza is nevertheless one of the great system-forming constructive philosophers of this time.
>Th. Hobbes.

1. B. Spinoza. Tractatus Theologico-Politicus (1670).