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What are some later examples of a strictly "geometric", i.e. axiomatic philosophical system like The Ethics? It seems the general attitude is against systematizing, particularly in metaphysics, but I really enjoy this kind of exercise.

>>10696904
You are nothing but a modification of God's attributes expressing themselves out of the necessity of their being.

>started biblical scholarship
>argued for democracy and liberal freedoms before it was cool
>got the worst recorded excommunication in history
>after rustling the Hebrews, he moved on to destroy the Cartesians and scholastic metaphysics
>lived in downright poverty because he refused money from his friends
>was absolutely despised right after his death as a dangerous atheist
>they still couldn't say one bad thing about his temperament

How can one Jew be so based?

Camus was too obsessed with free will. He should have read Spinoza and tried to find comfort in determinism.
I've been less anxious about most things once I accepted that the human thought process is as determined as everything else. Belief in free will leads to crazy absurdities and pseudo-catholic guilt where you feel you have to make yourself think/feel a certain way to lead a good life. This is a fallacy and a peculiar condition of the philosophical subject.

>>10618102
>Pantheism is the Great Error in theology / philosophy / metaphysics.
Why haven't you refuted the Spinman yet then?

>still being a determinist
What's your excuse?

Why do you still believe in free will, /lit/? This concept is nothing but a comfort blanket and does not accurately reflect the human thought process.

>implying you are anything else but a temporary modification of the one substance

>free will
>dualism
>anthropomorphic theism

Descartes was a fag and this crafty Judean right here is the real break from pre-modern philosophy.

The Biblical God died in western philosophy a few centuries ago. Your best bets Panentheistic monism or hegelian idealism.

Actually, modern philosophy from Bacon onwards refutes scholasticism pretty thoroughly, it just wasn't done in a systematic manner, but every proper intellectual realized that the old paradigm just wasn't working anymore. For instance, natural law ethics and aristotelian teleology are a joke in light of evolutionary biology.

I haven't read a novel in years and only read philosophy works. I feel this is making me one-dimensional because I can't help but scoff at the simple, phil101 messages of the majority fiction that get praised as works of genius. I feel like most writers didn't even start with the greeks.

Please give me some works to help me appreciate literature again in a non-philfag way.

Mental and physical are two aspects of the same reality, of which we are only a modus.

>not wanting to hook up with Spinoza instead
>tfw you'll never cuddles in bed while writing witty responses to Leibniz

>materialism
>idealism

What's the most logically coherent system of philosophy?

ITT: Philosophers who practiced what they wrote

yo niggaz i never gave my nigga spin-dawg a proper chance. i want to check out some of his shit. where do i fuckin start, niggaz?

Today I was diagnosed with tuberculosis. What are some patrician ways to enjoy my disease?

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Why does anyone take seriously philosophers who were Christian?

>>6481012
Child please, you embarrass yourself

his atheistic view of Christianity and his religious studies are probably what he's best at, but he's far from a hack and is way more intelligent, well-read, and interesting to talk to than anyone on /lit/ so LOL at all of you for calling him a hack.

Spinoza is the shit, but oh my god tell me you wouldn't like to slap the chub right out of those cheeks.