Question

Answer the following with REFERENCE to the text "this is the best of all" (a) what was the best of all? (b) why did travellers come from all over the world (c) who said this statement amd why?​

Answer 1

Answer:

I don't know sorry

Explanation:

bye 20

Answer 2

Answer:

CONTENTS

A. Introduction

B. Descartes

Methods of Investigation

Systematic Doubt

The One Foundation of All Knowledge

Spirit-Body Dualism

C. Malebranche

Sensory Information: Viewing through God

Bodily Movement: God causing all Physical Motion

God and Evil

D. Spinoza

God as Nature: Substance Monism

Determinism and Human Bondage

Free Speech

E. Leibniz

Monads in an Infinitely Divisible Plenum

Perception, Appetite, and Mirroring in Monads

Dominant Monad Souls and Parallelism

Evil and the Best of All Possible Worlds

Reading 1: Descartes on Doubt and Certainty (Meditations 1 and 2)

Reading 2: Spinoza on God not Willfully Directing the Course of Nature (Ethics, 1, Appendix)

Study Questions

A. INTRODUCTION

Rationalism is the philosophical view that knowledge is acquired through reason, without the aid of the senses. Mathematical knowledge is the best example of this, since through rational thought alone we can plumb the depths of numerical relations, construct proofs, and deduce ever more complex mathematical concepts. We can even envision that someone locked in a room with no sensory experience whatsoever might still arrive at a sophisticated level of mathematical knowledge. Several ancient and medieval writers held to rationalism, most notably Plato and philosophers who followed in the Platonist tradition. In the mid seventeenth-century, though, rationalism was given a unique twist by philosophers who held that our most important mental concepts are innate, or inborn, and from these we deduce other truths with absolute certainty. Advocates of this position were largely from the continental European countries of France, the Netherlands, and Germany, hence this new breed of rationalism is often called “Continental Rationalism.” The main philosophers associated with this movement, which we will explore in this chapter, are René Descartes, Nicholas Malebranche, Baruch Spinoza, and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.