Spinoza and Science

Spinoza's Early Modern Eudaimonism: Corporeal and Intellectual Flourishing

“…Where Spinoza crucially differs from both, however, is in arguing that matter is inherently active and actual because it belongs to God's nature, God being inherently active and actual (IP17S, IP31S). For discussion of Spinoza's critique of Descartes's conception of Extension, see, e.g., Alison Peterman (2015) and Thaddeus S. Robinson (2009). Peterman is noteworthy because she argues that Spinoza also breaks with tradition by denying that length, breadth, and depth constitute the true nature of Extension.…”