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Rationalists- Descartes & Espinosa

Descartes’s defines Substance, as “a thing existing in such a manner that is has no need of any other thing in order to exist.” He also states “substance is a name which we cannot attribute in the same sense to God and his creatures.” That statement right there clearly defines that God is viewed on a higher pedestal. He reasons that there are three kinds of substance and two types. The three kinds of Substance are God, Mind, and Body; and the two types are Independent and Dependent.
God is independent, he’s is the creator that possesses Free Will due to infinite knowledge. Our Mind is dependent upon our thinking, and is immaterial. We do posses free will, but it is dependent upon our finite knowledge. In a way I find that contradicting because it states that we have free will but out path is already chosen. So do we really have free will? Lastly our Body it is dependent upon extension (length, br...

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