A free man at least thinks about death. His wisdom is not the meditation on death, but the contemplation of life.
——Spinoza
The free man least thinks about death; so his wisdom is not the meditation on death but the meditation on life. "Spinoza practiced this motto very thoroughly. On the last day of his life, he remained completely calm. He was not as emotional as Socrates in the Phaedo, but as calm as anyone else. Spinoza, unlike some other philosophers, not only believed in his doctrines, but also practiced them; I have not heard of him once, though I have met him. Very irritating things, he once fell into the kind of anger and anger that his own ethics condemned. When arguing with others, he was modest and reasonable, never criticized, but tried his best to persuade the other party.
Spinoza is a pantheist. He believes that there are no multiple entities in the world. All phenomena in nature are attributes expressed by God. All things are one, and only God is an independent entity, so nature is God. God and nature are coincident. It was this thought that led to his expulsion from Judaism. Since everything in the world is the way God exists, their occurrence is inevitable, and there is no good or evil in it. The way God expresses his existence, all the comedies, tragedies, fortunes and disasters that happen to people and around us, such as natural flowers blooming and blooming, clouds rising and setting, are all natural manifestations of God. We need to accept the ups and downs of life calmly and do not complain or complain. Everything that happens in the world is neither good nor evil. My simple analogy to Spinoza's theory is that there are always various life experiences and encounters in a person's life, including happiness and pain, and tears and flowers. . It is these factors that constitute a person's complete life. Don't stubbornly believe that happiness is all in life. Don't lament misfortune. Sometimes blood and tears can better show the richness of life.
Descartes' theory reestablished confidence in human rationality. Spinoza and Leibniz, both outstanding figures in the classical rationalism school, firmly followed Descartes' principles. Reason has the ability to obtain absolutely certain insights with the help of axioms and deductive reasoning, so that it can also achieve a happy and peaceful life.
The difference between Spinoza's thought and religious thought is that. , Religion relies on the passion of faith to realize the nature of life, while Spinoza relies on his calm reason to deduce the original state of life.
Because I am in an adversity in life, I will chew Spinoza carefully. Nosa's thoughts are nothing more than a way to soothe the soul. Life is like a dream. To the boundless universe, a person's life is just a drop in the ocean. He is like the sand of the Huan River and wants to be the mainstay of his destiny. If you are in the middle of the stream, you are overestimating your abilities. Lust for fame and fortune is the result of being a hero. Although people are not as good as God, being able to endure dangerous roads while climbing mountains and walking on dangerous bridges, the word "patience" may be the way to peace and tranquility.