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Episode 102: Venkatesh Rao

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The Evolution of Spinoza's Philosophy

The enlightenment philosophers were writing books that almost no one read. But in terms of popularizing it meaning and, wy to say, imposing it on a mass scale, absolutely. Iave always identified the rise of industrial capitalism as the origin of that. For the first time most people in the west are looking at a clock for the first time - they're thinking about time in that way.

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