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Spinoza appeals to both of these pieces of theoretical machinery, along with a few interesting additions, when he presents his five remedies for overcoming or restraining the passions.
In this posthumously published book Ethics, he equated God with nature by writing "God or Nature" four times. Spinoza, accordingly, now restricted the term "substance" to the complete system, though he occasionally continued to use the phrase "substance or attribute", or described Extension as a substance. Spinoza holds that everything that exists is part of nature, and everything in nature follows the same basic laws. If this were so, then we might expect Spinozist morality to license all manner of violations of traditional morality in the name of self-preservation and the advancement of our own interests.In the long run, Spinoza thinks, irrational affects will be forced to “accommodate themselves” more and more frequently to the rational affects.
As commonly used, especially since the time of Locke, the term substance is contrasted with its attributes or qualities as their substratum or bearer.They do not belong either to their age or to their part of the globe, which rewarded the one with death, and the other with persecution and ignominy.