A Dedication to Spinoza's Insights Spinoza's insights are graphed and analogies made to calculus. Follow links about certain topics that run through his works, many of which are found as electronic texts on the page. In addition to comments about Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz, specific examples of both clear and unclear ideas are provided. More information is available through links. The author of this piece questions whether there are any inscrutable truths.
Modal rationalism implies that something can possibly exist.
Modal concepts are positive if they conceivably exist and negative if they don't conceivably exist. Strong modal rationalism implies a necessary possibility and weak modal rationalism implies a contingent possibility. The philosophies of Descartes, Spinoza, Malebranche, Pascal and Leibniz are described and critiques are also given. Spinoza The lecture compares Spinoza's philosophy with Decartes and Leibniz. Additional information is given of the Leibniz' ideas on free will in the Synopsis of Liebniz - Arnauld Correspondence.