Descartes and Spinoza on Substance Rene Descartes and Baruch Spinoza were rationalist philosophers, seeing universe through mathematics: everything is ordered and can be demonstrated in geometrical manner. Even though Spinoza was heavily influenced by Descartes, they did not share the same view of the essence of substance, and, therefore, God. Whereas Descartes was substance dualist, Spinoza believed in one substance. Descartes' mind and matter distinction can be found in his Meditations on First Philosophy , written …showed first 75 words of 290 total…

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