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141. - Parallelism

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 January 2025

By
Chantal Jaquet
Edited by
Karolina Hübner  and
Justin Steinberg
Karolina Hübner
Affiliation:
Cornell University, New York
Justin Steinberg
Affiliation:
Cornell University, New York
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The term ‘parallelism’ is used by commentators to describe Spinoza’s conception of relation between ideas and things, or between the modes of different attributes. It refers to E2p7, which establishes that “the order and connection of ideas is the same [idem est] as the order and connection of things.” The doctrine of parallelism, whose explicit paternity lies with Leibniz (Considerations on the Doctrine of a Universal Spirit, 122–23), is often presented as expressing Spinoza’s thinking, although it was imported retrospectively into his system, where, arguably, technically, it does not appear.

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The Cambridge Spinoza Lexicon , pp. 406 - 411
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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