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Post by Fengji Zhang on Nov 16, 2017 22:58:19 GMT
Damasio take very similar view as Spinoza. The God is not a provident God conceived in the images of humans. God is the origin of all there is before our senses, and it is all there is, an uncaused and eternal substance with infinite attributes. The god is nature. Therefore, we don't need to pray or do convocation, and the God will not punish you if you have done something wrong. You also don't need to work hard to get reward from the God. The only you can be afraid is when you are lees than kind to others, you punish yourself on moral level, a mental experience. On the other hand, Damasio think Spinoza's view is tough. For example, intuitive access to understanding was considered as third kind method in Spinoza's salvation. But it requires abundant knowledge and sustained reflection. Spinoza propose mind's (spirituality) power over the emotional process. He believe human have to prevent the connection between the stimulus that cause negative emotion and emotion mechanism to achieve joy life. Thus, the knowledge of negative emotions and mechanism of emotions are highly needed. From these, we can see Domasio's views are tend to idealism, similar with Spinoza. They combine God and mental process together to emphasize that human are fully controlling their own life and joy, freedom can be achieve when we win the war of our own mental process.
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