/lit/ - Literature

>>17096887
This is definitely Spinoza.

>>17088879
No.

>>17037571
>and my ass

Tell me about Spinoza, why does he wear the attribute?

What do I need to read before reading Spinoza?

>>16854761

Iron Maiden guitarist Adrian Smith recently wrote a book about fishing and his music career.

>duuude humans were the real god all along

>>16781055
The people always have the right to rebel because we never leave a state of nature. Government is just a more organized violence: a more hierarchical, ordered tribe. It has authority for the same reason a strong individual has over a weak individual, for the same reason a leading silverback has authority over his band. A revolution, if successful, has demonstrated itself to be stronger than its opposition. Thus it will rule, as expected in a state of nature.

"Those who boast of the triumphs and statues of their ancestors think they suffer injustice if they are not afforded favoritism."
Based

>>16397710
>man vs nature
>man vs God
>different categories
Guys I don’t understand can someone please help?

>>16395337
Cowardly, disingenuous disposition. Pic related still has the strongest case for God (besides Jesus Christ)

>>16397111
Who cares if it's not real when I feel it towards everything?

>>16385251
>Is anyone here actually optimistic
Imagine not being

Problems with Spinoza:
1)no clinamen
2)no will to change (conatus)
3)atemporal (sub specie aeternatis)
4)one substance negates pluralism

>>16031214

Axiom 1: By Spinoza, I understand that being which always is correct.
Axiom 2: By I, undersyand that being which is Spinoza

Proposition 1. I am always right

This is evident from Axiom 1 & 2, thus I am always... Q.E.D.

wtf I love dancing bears and animal circusses now

Man led by fear is not blessed

ITT: Writers you wish had written more.

>>15278359
Death is the perishing of our being. It is thus detrimental to our own power of acting. Good and bad are merely ways in which we view exterior causes in relation to their effects on our potency. What helps to preserve our being is good, what detriments our being or power of acting is bad. Death is detriment to our power of acting. Death is bad. QED

Where do I start with Spinoza?

Get with the times old man... Baruch Spinoza (pbuh)... Is our new master... And many hylics will seethe... (pbuh)...

>Nevertheless, though such is the case, and though there be no further room for doubt, I can scarcely believe, until the fact is proved by experience, that men can be induced to consider the question calmly and fairly, so firmly are they convinced that it is merely at the bidding of the mind, that the body is set in motion or at rest, or performs a variety of actions depending solely on the mind's will or the exercise of thought.
>However, no one has hitherto laid down the limits to the powers of the body, that is, no one has as yet been taught by experience what the body can accomplish solely by the laws of nature, in so far as she is regarded as extension. No one hitherto has gained such an accurate knowledge of the bodily mechanism, that he can explain all its functions; nor need I call attention to the fact that many actions are observed in the lower animals, which far transcend human sagacity, and that somnambulists do many things in their sleep, which they would not venture to do when awake: these instances are enough to show, that the body can by the sole laws of its nature do many things which the mind wonders at.