UPSC Mains | Philosophy | Paper I | Lecture 4 | Spinoza and the nature of God | T. Rammohan

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Amazing lectures sir. Brilliant explanations, if i could I’d choose learning everything about life from you. Respect ✨

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Philosophy optional books?

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hands down! best so far!

[@jaibharat122]

thank you for free paper I lectures. Will surely be buying paper II lectures.

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How much?

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[@jaibharat122]

love is absence of hate. correct but hate is not absence of love. it can be proved through the very first relation itself.

[@md87825]

Very nice sir

[@jaibharat122]

may you please help me differentiate between attributes and modes in the context of spinoza using examples.

[@tufail7237]

Great sir

[@swatikumari8434]

Sir, if every determination is negation then how can substance have attributes? As by attributing the substance we are determining the substance .. please reply sir

[@ishimatandon3408]

As per Spinoza, there is only one substance - God which has infinite qualities or attributes. All the other things which we see around us are indirectly caused by God. These things have derived some particular attribute from those infinite pool of attributes of God. But these things are not substances in themselves as they are limited to their attributes solely. so determination of such objects leads to negation as they are defined in terms of their attributes and are not permanent. Further determination and negation ultimately leads us to God who/which is not limited to a set of temporary attributes, and hence is permanent and the one true substance which cannot be negated.

[@anjaliparihar6124]

Thank you sir :)

[@jaibharat122]

who knows we might be well before the creation of earth as well 'in substance'

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Hi! Why have you not considered commerce and accountancy optional?

[@pratikthakur7189]

Sir where is the lecture no 3 ... It's showing directly lec4 of philosophy after lec2... Please help sir... 😟

[@RaamasyaIAS]

In the same playlist before Lecture 2

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[@tufail7237]

Good

[@priyanshi954]

Hello sir, tried reaching you on the shared number a couple of times also emailed you on the provided id, the number seems to be switched off and i haven't received any response. Please let me know how to contact you.

[@RaamasyaIAS]

The phone is now working... Please try calling up tomorrow at 9 AM

[@curiouslearner4716]

Once sir where I get the pdf sir

[@RaamasyaIAS]

Hi... You can download the material from the study material section of the Raamasya IAS app.

[@claudiozanella256]

The almighty God is normally supposed to BOTH A) being able to make decisions and B) to know the future. Here you should make a distinction between "optional futures" - God could maybe interact and modify them - and "THE ONE FUTURE", because ONLY ONE DETERMINED future will eventually come true. (The one that will become our ONLY ONE PAST). Well, God is supposed to be able to get the best performance: to know that ONE future. But then God MUST JUST LET IT UNFOLD EXACTLY like it is, He is NOT ALLOWED to change anything in it, because God makes no errors in his knowledge of the future! God cannot decide ANYTHING more: ALL God's decisions are already included in that future. What above means that EITHER God is free to decide, but this implies He does NOT know the ONE future, OR He knows the ONE future, but this prevents Him from making ANY further decision. Even worse than that, GOD WOULD BE OBLIGED to HIMSELF slavishly follow that one determined future. This all means the two abilities A) and B) are MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE ("either", "or", but never "BOTH" at the same time). Since obviously God was able to make his decisions and we are also confident that He knows the future, the path followed must be from A) to B). When that transition occurred ? Certainly not during the man's history, of course that must have happened BEFORE the birth of the universe. However, God only arrived at step B) BUT WITHOUT ENTERING that step, we saw earlier that God is absolutely NOT INTERESTED IN TAKING PART to that future: He would be obliged to "SLAVISHLY" follow it. The God's actions in that one future (for example words) will AUTOMATICALLY come true instead. In other words that one future will come true WITHOUT GOD. Thus NOBODY will be there to take the God's actions. The God's words will thus be spoken by the SPIRIT OF GOD since God is not there to speak. Everything was done, God was thus FREE from any other duty. But where has the almighty God gone after that ? Of course He is now the Son of God. The almighty God dropped his then USELESS power to become like a normal man: Jesus. Thus, the almighty God is only IN THE PAST, "no one ever saw God" ""The world has not known you".

[@ce_052_manikverma4]

Sir i noticed that at various points video is cut -paste. So is it just a technical glitch or some concepts are not been shown officially.

[@RaamasyaIAS]

Everything that has been recorded has been show. There was a technical problem which has now been sorted out.

[@ce_052_manikverma4]

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[@rameezgilani]

Sir, is more concerned about dictations than explanations, even when they are providing printed notes. Philosphy requires thorough understanding so real life examples are a must bt he barely provides any. Also he doesn't explain the basics. for example he defined priority monism bt did not speak a word as to why it uses the word 'Priority'. Overall, very much dissatisfied with his approach.