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Spinoza

In Our Time: Philosophy

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I Think the General Tenor of His Philosophy Is Anti-Religious

i want to defend myself against on i think john was suggesting that i was seeing too much in the idea of im being passionately religious. And i guess we do have rather different readings of spinoza's thought in that respect. One thing to say about the ethics as a whole, the feeling you get is of a thinker who is desperately trying to bring order to a torrent of thoughts that's resisting. But there is what suffuses it is a sense that religion is about reverence for the universe as a whole.

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