An Illustrated Brief History of Western Philosophy, ch. 13

I enjoyed this chapter quite a bit. I liked the story about Pascal's coat having "God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob; not of the philosophers and scholars" stitched inside. While I find great value in both, I think it is helpful to remember that God reveals Himself to the common man in time; and that God must dumb down his language to speak to even the scholar. I was not previously familiar with Spinoza, though I was familiar with the name. I am very perplexed by his works and that is about all I know to say. I found Malebranche's occasionalism interesting, all though it seems that this must lead to Hume's critique of cause and effect. It was good to see something that we covered from last year in Leibniz's law of the identity of indiscernibles.