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1. THE REACTIVE PHILOSOPHY OF LEIBNIZ Sims Tullos
2. The Courtier and the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza, and the Fate
of God in the Modern World
3. BENEDICT DE SPINOZA Apostate Jew Born and lived in Holland
Reclusive study with little to no indulgence Careful to whom he
spoke philosophy
4. GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ Born in Germany Orthodox Lutheran
Excessive and expensive lifestyle with many indulgences Boasted
about his knowledge to anyone that would here
5. SPINOZA VS. LEIBNIZ One was the ultimate insider, the other
a double exile; one was an orthodox Lutheran from conservative
Germany, the other an apostate Jew from licentious Holland. Above
all, one was sworn to uphold the very same theocratic order that
the other sought to destroy (Stewart 111)
6. PASSION BECOMES OBSESSION
7. PASSION BECOMES OBSESSION
8. LEIBNIZ OBSESSION Leibniz spent his mature philosophical
career trying to dispute the metaphysics of Spinoza only to end up
so closely identified with the man he once claimed would set the
four corners of the Earth on fire As one would say that Spinoza
began with God and ended with God, it would also be appropriate to
say that Leibniz started with Spinoza and ended with Spinoza
9. WORKS CITED Works Cited Stewart, Matthew. The Courtier and
the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza, and the Fate of God in the Modern
World. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2006. Print. Spinoza,
Benedict de. A Spinoza Reader: The Ethics and Other Works. Ed. and
Trans. Edwin Curley. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press,
1994. Print.