Baruch Spinoza person
also: Spinoza, Baroque Spinoza
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Baruch Spinoza influenced
G.W.F. Hegel host_asserted
“was gotten in the name of George William Frederick Hegel. That's probably where I heard the name. There's your mic drop. Yeah, Hegelian dialectic was influenced by Spinoza. Hegel regarded Spinoza as foundational to his entire belief system.…”
▶ The Shadow State 66 The Rise & Fall of the Dutch Empire @ 1:01:16
Baruch Spinoza influenced
Karl Marx host_asserted
“But it's the way his words were twisted by others where it got dangerous. The world is not created for man. Man is created for the world. Not sure I like that. So who else was he influencing on? Oh, the guy by the name of Karl Marx. Oh, yea…”
▶ The Shadow State 66 The Rise & Fall of the Dutch Empire @ 1:08:03
Baruch Spinoza wrote
Tractatus Theologico-Politicus documented
“And I'll give you some of his quotes here in a second. But it was so bad that he was excommunicated. You were not even allowed to speak about him or to him. So this guy's a bit of a maverick. He's the guy that developed what's called a comp…”
▶ The Shadow State 66 The Rise & Fall of the Dutch Empire @ 59:34
Baruch Spinoza wrote
Ethics documented
“called the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus. When he died in 1677, some of his contemporaries published a bunch of his works together and posthumously published his most famous book, which is just called Ethics, in 1677. What did he talk abou…”
▶ The Shadow State 66 The Rise & Fall of the Dutch Empire @ 1:00:09
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▶ 57:22
I've decided I want to start with the one I don't like first. That's always a good place to start. Yep. Ever heard of Baroque Spinoza? I've heard of Spinoza, but I don't remember where. Well, we're going to hear a lot about him today. Okay.…
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One of the real reasons the Dutch had so many great thinkers during the Renaissance is they allowed religious freedom. And people from all over Europe that were basically feeling like their religion was being impinged upon went to places li…
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different ideas all coming together that made the Dutch so successful. So Spinoza, I don't know if that's a portrait or not. It's a picture I found of him on Wikipedia. He gets excommunicated by the Amsterdam's Jewish community because he h…
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So there are going to be philosophers out there that tell me I miscommunicate some of this stuff. So we're getting into philosophy. We're only going to go so deep because we're just trying to show you how it leads to our broader narrative. …
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And I'll give you some of his quotes here in a second. But it was so bad that he was excommunicated. You were not even allowed to speak about him or to him. So this guy's a bit of a maverick. He's the guy that developed what's called a comp…
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called the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus. When he died in 1677, some of his contemporaries published a bunch of his works together and posthumously published his most famous book, which is just called Ethics, in 1677. What did he talk abou…
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by René Descartes, who was living in the Netherlands, a Jewish philosopher named Maimonides, and really listened to a lot of the ancient Greek writings, the Christoics and the Epicureans. Now, I like Epicurus, but the Epicureans took it too…
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was gotten in the name of George William Frederick Hegel. That's probably where I heard the name. There's your mic drop. Yeah, Hegelian dialectic was influenced by Spinoza. Hegel regarded Spinoza as foundational to his entire belief system.…
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but critiqued it for lacking subjectivity, and here it comes, and dialectical movement. He transformed Spinoza's static substance into a dynamic historical absolute spirit, and this is what led to what became known as German Idealism, and t…
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We're going to talk a lot more about Hegel next week, but just know that he came from Spinoza. We talk about Hegel pretty much every week, don't we? Yeah, in one way or another. You want to give new listeners just a brief 30,000-foot view o…
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It was a manufactured crisis. It was a very bad flu. It didn't need to shut down economies. And they did that on purpose to gain power. They do it always to gain power, to keep inching further down the field. And the goal has always been th…
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All right, on God, nature, and reality, what he calls pantheism. He says, God and nature are one and the same thing. Whatever is, is in God. And without God, nothing can be or be conceived. So this is not an atheist. He's just redefining th…
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But it's the way his words were twisted by others where it got dangerous. The world is not created for man. Man is created for the world. Not sure I like that. So who else was he influencing on? Oh, the guy by the name of Karl Marx. Oh, yea…
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ideas and turn it into materialism and atheism. So that's where we said his ideas can get spun in a different direction. Well, you got Hegel and Marx, or two of his most famous disciples. And this came, you know, it's one of the great think…
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Of the Fabian socialists. They thought they were modern thinkers. And could cast off the shackles of past values. And basically. Rebecca Goldstein says. He is the one who started modernism. So there you go people. Baruch Spinoza. Our anti-h…
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He's on my personal Mount Rushmore. Born 1853. I'll get to that. Why do we care about Hugo? Born 1583. Lived till 1645. So those two overlap by a little bit. He's still teaching until 1645. And when Spinoza is a teenager. So Spinoza grows u…
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That's why I was looking forward to this episode so much because Hugo, to me, both these guys, both in a good way, bad way first, then good way second, Spinoza, in a bad way influenced the rest of history. And then Hugo comes back and tells…