When1: 1622
When2: 1623
Who: Jakob Böhme [Böhme, Jakob]
What: philosopher
Where: Germany
works\ Way to Christ [1622]; Great Mystery [1623]
Detail: He lived 1575 to 1624 and was German Mystic. He united neo-Platonism and Paracelsus to try to unify religion and science.
Ethics
Good and evil in world result from absolute necessity of God revealing itself in world as being, because everything in world has to have opposite. Nature moves by will, which can choose good or evil. People's acts affect universe. People should progress from spiritual perception, to mystical devotion, to pure spirit.
Metaphysics
Nature is unified whole, created by God using laws and reason. Nature is beautiful. God is world essence and efficient cause. God is spirit with infinite senses and reason and is world inner activity, like the living sap of trees.
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