This philosopher distinguished between active nature and a system of modes when he drew thedistinction between Natura Naturans and Natura Naturata, the latter following from the former as allfollows from divine nature. This man argued that things seen as good or bad were only considered assuch because they were good or bad to people, and thus those terms were relative in his Treatise onthe Improvement of the Understanding. This man's (*) Contatus principle asserts that, "Each thing, asfar as it can by its own power, str
This philosopher distinguished between active nature and a system of modes when he drew thedistinction between Natura Naturans and Natura Naturata, the latter following from the former as allfollows from divine nature. This man argued that things seen as good or bad were only considered assuch because they were good or bad to people, and thus those terms were relative in his Treatise onthe Improvement of the Understanding. This man's (*) Contatus principle asserts that, "Each thing, asfar as it can by its own power, strives to persevere in being" and is "IIIP" in the work in which it appears.In this man's Pantheism God is Nature and conversely, and he uses a number of axioms in a section title,"Of Human Bondage." For 10 points, name this Jewish-Dutch philosopher and author of Ethics.
This philosopher distinguished between active nature and a system of modes when he drew thedistinction between Natura Naturans and Natura Naturata, the latter following from the former as allfollows from divine nature.
 Baruch Spinoza