What is Spinoza's God?

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Spinoza is one of the most controversial and debated philosophers in the last few centuries. This video attempts to give a very general overview of his perspective on God as well as some ways that it can be interpreted.

Sources/Suggested Reading:
Garrett, Don (1996). "The Cambridge Companion to Spinoza". Cambridge University Press.

Nadler, Steven (2018). "Spinoza: A Life". Cambridge University Press.

Wolfson, Harry Austryn (2014). "The Philosophy of Spinoza: Unfolding the Latent Processes of His Reasoning". Harvard University Press.

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I like how you take the extra effort to pronounce peoples names in their proper languages. That is a very respectful thing to do and very admirable.

aapp

“What really interests me, " Albert Einstein once remarked, "is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world."

KrausHaus

Spinoza is a giant in history. I am thankful that you covered him. People should know about him.

briankleinschmidt

Humans, like everything in nature are multi-dimensional, especially in their thoughts. Great thinkers like Spinoza, Rumi, the Buddha, Descartes and so many others are capable of expressing their philosophical thoughts in a way that reaffirms our own thoughts about the causal forces giving shape to what we know as physical Universe. A great video.

shafiqjasar

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SeekersofUnity

It's nice how often you reference Middle Eastern philosophers, because I know so little about that area's philosophy. I am roughly familiar with a Western ensemble and it's nice to see other folks pop up from areas of the world that I'm less familiar with. You are making me interested in obtaining a much more global perspective of philosophy. It took me several years to become familiar with the Western ensemble. I wonder how long it would take for me to become more familiar with our Eastern (Middle East and far-East alike), African, perhaps autochthonic American, and perhaps autochthonic Oceanic philosophies. The conversation about "what life and the universe is" is a very long and global conversation, and it is our responsibility to hear the fullest amount of the conversation that we can handle in one lifetime.

Paraselene_Tao

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watchtowerwitch

To me Spinoza's God makes a lot of sense than any other personal or anthropomorphic Gods.

willyh.r.

Love this video! For my part, Spinoza’s mastery also comes from the refined order of propositions and proofs, not just his conclusions abt God, reality, humankind etc. Totally not the focus of this channel, but I think the Euclidean origins of Ethics’ structure adds so much to the rigor of his arguments, and gives insight on why Spinoza has been so inspiring and dangerous thru history lol.

TreThesk

Oh my god I never thought I'd see this channel cover spinoza. This might be the only non philosophy video on spinoza on youtube.

marinaaaa

Spinoza is my favourite philosopher, so excited that you made a video about him.

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gabrielleangelica

I think this is an excellent, very clear exposition of Spinoza's view of God/Nature/Substance. I especially like your clear, brief discussion of the pantheist-panentheist labels. I also loved your comparing and contrasting of Spinoza's view of God with the broadly anthropomorphic character of the God of living Abrahamic religions. I also think you correctly identify exactly what is, and is not, "radical" about Spinoza's view. Kudos!

keithgreen

Spinoza's idea of substance seems easy to draw parallels with Ibn Arabi and wahdat-al-wujud as well as shankaracharya and more broadly the hindu idea of brahman, though Spinoza seems like an 'atheistic theist' in a unique and interesting way. None of these people's ideas can be put into an accurate label or sentence that wouldn't be reductive, but all of them share a conceptual through-line.

toath

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