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You have 5 minutes to explain Spinoza's Ethics to me

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>>16244836

>> No.16244925

Shits math but with emotions

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I'll need more than 5 min to read it tho

>> No.16244959

so basically our reason tells us that there is only one substance, which means all of this is in some sense connected and we have no radical break between things, we perceive certain things different because of different attributes of the substance. if everything is made up of causal chains and the same substance, we can use reason and understand those to get the full picture of a thing. people who do not use reason but their imagination (which works as an effect of egoism) think that things around you work for humans, they create gods, think there is beauty and ugliness in the world and so on. but the real world is neutral causal chain which creates certain quantities of power here and there. human is such a quantity of power. if he increases it, he is happy, if he loses it he is sad. so basically ethics is saying lets look at what increases our power and what makes us lose it. spinoza thinks that when you understand what brings you down you have power over that thing, so praise intellect. at the end spinoza favors rational thinking over imagination, causal explanation over agency, happyness and power over depression and he is against judgement, we have to be cool and understand everything.

>> No.16244963

jews once again fail at philosophy

>> No.16244970

Spinny was a fucking idiot.

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>>16244959
Based explanation, thanks guy

>> No.16245067

>>16244959
Is Ethics hard to read?

>> No.16245092

>>16245067
I have zero background in philosophy and when I started to read Ethics I literally didnt understand anything

>> No.16245106

>>16245067
Guy I'm trying to read this book and all I know is that God is everything and we are all one, only differentiated through logic >>16244959
Based explanation poster, thanks senpai

>> No.16245112

>>16244836
>burberry
No thanks, female hypebeast.

>> No.16245121

>>16245067
it is pretty hard, but with some kind of secondary lit you should be fine. it is kind of catchy in a way, even if at the start it looks really obscure. you know, its like that with a lot of phi literature. you read, you dont understand shit then you read some more and at some point you break trough.