/lit/ - Literature

my man spinoza

he did nietzsche before nietzsche

Was he right?

Is this kike worth a read?

>>13742063
It’s okay. If you can’t handle not having the illusion of control, then live as you see fit. It’s merely human.

“In the mind there is no absolute or free will; but the mind is determined to wish this or that by a cause, which has been determined by another cause, and this last by another cause, and so on to infinity.”

BASED AS FUCK

/lit/'s opinion on Baruch de Spinoza and his works?

western philosophy generally sticks to the subject-object and humanity-nature dichotomy while eastern philosophy doesn't. an exception would be my nigga spinoza

is spinoza the most based philosopher to ever live?

What do i need to read before starting Ethics?Only philosophy i've read is the greeks and nietzsche

>>13232282
read pic related

Was he just Nietzsche but dumber?

>>13035931
no prob anon, work hard
>all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare

>>13019006
>loves Hegel
brainlet

>>13012921
Not really a chesterton fan, sadly. I like some of his essays but he grows old quick once you realize he does the same hat trick over and over again. I don't like his fiction, not even the Father Brown stories. He just sucks at characterization. I don't like his apologetics either. I love his occasional essays. The one about losing his hat and the one about a piece of chalk are fantastic pieces of writing. I also really like his dickens crit.
No, I don't think God exists. I'm a pretty orthodox Spinozan. I like Lewis/Merton because the structure and promise of Christianity shines through their writing, you know? It comforts me. I don't think Mere Christianity and The Great Divorce are convincing enough for me to convert, although I like them as books. My favorite Lewis is probably The Screwtape Letters.

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>>13004159
>blocks your path
WRONG

I'm interested in this guy? Thoughts on him? Best way to start with him?

Almost every book I read makes good points
Even if I don't want to agree with them, if I try to think how they think, they actually make some pretty good points

Is that one pathetic anti-Semite who hangs around /lit/ mad that the best philosopher of all time was Jewish?

Was he right about everything?

Just try and refute him.

>>12593129
Edit -- one Westerner came pretty close. And all on his own, too.

>read The Ethics

Who here is /Baruchpilled/?
>Pandeism
>Pantheism
>German idealism
>Non duality
Do you think there could be a revival of these sorts of concepts in the western memesphere?

>>12530428
blessed post

>>12503248
There is no life in thee, now, except that rocking life imparted by a gently rolling ship; by her, borrowed from the sea; by the sea, from the inscrutable tides of God. But while this sleep, this dream is on ye, move your foot or hand an inch; slip your hold at all; and your identity comes back in horror. Over Descartian vortices you hover. And perhaps, at mid-day, in the fairest weather, with one half-throttled shriek you drop through that transparent air into the summer sea, no more to rise for ever. Heed it well, ye Pantheists!