Spinoza's 'Ethics': What do you mean by 'God'?

[Uncle Joe]

Oct 9, 2018

Jonathan Rée discusses Spinoza's philosophical treatise the Ethics, an 'idealised intellectual autobiography' that, through its dry definitions and propositions, manages to tell a gripping story. Through this story emerges some of Spinoza's key ideas: that knowledge is a continuum rather than a dichotomy between sensation and reason; that the path to freedom is not about getting what you want but learning to love the world rationally; and his concept of God not as a separate supernatural being, but rather as nature or the universe as a whole, which one comes to love with 'intellectual love' as individual identity is subsumed into the greater whole.

Film by Anthony Wilks