No doubt AI can save time. When used as you suggest it is an improvement over the library card catalog (does anyone remember those?). Maybe the student gets better at writing. I'm not convinced because current word processing programs can correct spelling, punctuation and grammar. I guess the point is that these tools can help one learn, but one must want to learn. It's not a display of skills if you let AI do all the research, then cut/paste some of that information and let your computer be your editor. I've heard that professors from even some elite U.S. universities now encounter students who have never read an entire book, and no longer have the attention span do do so. So the professors now assign fewer, or no, full books. To me, that is sad, and it doesn't bode well for the future. It must be very frustrating for the professors, not to mention that future employers will have little to gain from hiring these students. If all you need to do is have AI write the paper, who needs the employee?

Its almost laughable the manner in which theu ostrasized me ....but im not laughing

Fantastic , love this content can't wait for next week's video. Thank you

Is All Life Holy? Did Schweitzer answer this question? Did he think Gd manifested himself in the humans who destroy, harm, or hinder life, which he defined as evil? Did he think the lives of those who commit horrific atrocities are to be valued equally with the lives of the innocent victims of those atrocities?

Beautiful the animations everything beautiful

Great, I enjoyed this very much thank you

The reduction is by no additions and much removals this helps any mind calm so listening to the wind and the sights of sun set with less interferencevin

Fantastic, I enjoy this very much. I would like to listen live but I'm at work. As always thank you

Was Spinoza married?

Answer: Yes

I love the work and philosophical beliefs of Dr. Albert Schweitzer. I hope to follow his teachings on Reverence for Life and carry on his legacy.

Thank you so much!

I have enjoyed your channels and I am still enjoying thank you. I am looking forward to next week's reading.

Thank you all for being here and watching this! I hope you enjoy our little Epicurean chat. See you next week at the same time! And, by the way, it seems like we will be done with Epicurus in another two sessions or so. What do we want to read next? Any suggestions? Another ancient philosopher? A Stoic perhaps? Or Descartes, Leibniz, Spinoza, Kant? I'm open to all suggestions except continental philosophy (Heidegger, Husserl, Nietzsche, Foucault) because I don't know enough about them.

Great, thoroughly enjoyed it. I can't watch it live but will watch it later

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There are no "Facts" of Philisophy.

I can't wait for this to start. I watch almost all of your videos time permitting. Personally I won't be able to watch Sunday/Monday but I will watch later. Thank you so much for this content.

Many thanks to all who watched this, either live or later! Let's meet again next Monday! See the thumbnail or watch the video for the exact times of our live book club.

Thank you for this! Although, one might add, sometimes other values may be more important than happiness. For example, a parent might choose to sacrifice their own life in order to save their children in a particular situation. Or a soldier may participate in a war out of a sense of duty, rather than in pursuit of their happiness. But I agree with you that we should always be mindful of the suffering we cause to other beings. Thanks!

suffering is the death of happiness. the less suffering, the more happiness. that is why every religion is about suffering, and every human journey about the pursuit of happiness. that is why. utilitarianism is about the best possible outcome for the most amount of entities. And since the only universal value we can see humans trying to achieve is what we colloquially call happiness, is indeed to lower our level of suffering. All humans did, invent and make up is to reduce suffering. We built houses to beat the cold, we invented farming to beat the uncertainty of hunger, we came up with art and music to distract and cope. All of human endeavour is about reduction of suffering and the uncertainty of tomorrow. And if we do this universally, then we must assume it is a natural drive, which means other life shares is; and indeed proliferation, a certain kind of harmonious stability, some complacency even, can very well be what nature would also experience as happiness; less suffering, less stress, more stability and harmony. And when that is true, we need to consider their suffering too. That does not mean you need to go full vegan, but at the very least understand what the contract of mutual domestication means, and never underestimate the suffering you can cause to something else.

I am a fan of Oneness... thank you Baruch. And thank you for your video reminding Spinoza's incredibly strong insight on reality. Jesus said :"Philip, don't you believe I am in God, and God is in me ?" (John 14:11). God and his creation are ONE. We are in God, and God in us.

I sure would live to meet Spinoza followers

I dont know we are gods or not but I like people who think and wonder about everything and any thing

I saw Jesus Christ Superstar in The Netherlands when it first came out and I absolutely loved it, so much so that I bought the record! Ted Neeley, Mary Magdalene, and Judas were especially memorable. I certainly can imagine how playing JC for a long time would permeate one's own character. Actors, of course, say they 'become' their characters but shake it off when they finish playing it. I agree that good behaviours and thoughts must become habits but it is very, very difficult to shake off bad habits, or ones not conducive to the good ones. In a way, we are all actors in this respect and, as Shakespeare said, all the world is a stage!

So what? What will you do with this theory. Does this theory make any difference or help making life happy? I

is he ai?

He's not the most hated, hatred is about emotions, and we are here in pure philosophical rationality. To me he's the most criticized because the less understood... because too intelligent for the average thinker, and with a very verbose way of writing making his thoughts difficult to grasp.

Its a great video sir, your voice has a really soothing and calming effect. Sir in india we consider stoicism as western version of buddhism. Stoicism is in our view a practical implication of madhyamika, the middle path of buddhism. Sir I would like to request you if you can make videos on buddhism, especially on nagarjuna and shunyata, dependent origination.

Sir thankyou somuch for making these videos, its so soothing and sublime. It gives me peace and containtment. 🙏🏻🙏🏻 Sir i would request you if you can please make videos on buddhism especials madhyamika, nagarjuna and his theory of emptiness and dependent origination. It my humble request to you.🙏🏻🙏🏻

sir can you please explain nagarjuna's shunyata and dependent origination.

A great message, cheers!

this was insightful, thank you!

To be fair it does help when you have magic powers

I saw both the play and film back in the 70's, I had no idea Ted Neely made that his career . . .

Good advice.

I came to this understanding, if I may call it that, in 1996 when sleeping I had severe sleep apnea and apparently, stopped breathing to find myself in a unending void with a sun at the center, a sun which was smiling its awareness at me. I immediately took this sun to be God on high, but yet, as strange is it might seem, it was also just as much me. Then I understood it was the pinnacle of a conscious collective we are all a part of, like the cells of our bodies creating a sum greater than the parts.

I have studied Spinoza for over 50 years. I am a teacher and mentor specializing in Spinoza's Ethics. It took me a long time to understand and live his ideas. His Ethics isn't just be read and intellectualize, but to understand and live his ideas. The belief in free will is a great obstacle to true knowledge.

Id live in a barrel everything free theres no capital process of commerce and business

This is very good insight, we need to gain skills not cheat. I'm in total agreement. I have seen cheating at school's but the students don't learn or grow in knowledge. Thanks for the great content and good to see you back

Not an equivalency.

Spinoza was an enlightened man just like the Buddha, Lao Tzu, Jesus, and the first Hebrew who had to have been enlightened in order to realize there is only one God. Spinoza was vilified by the Jews and Christian’s because their beliefs and understanding of God is utter nonsense and has nothing to do with God. This is reflected very obviously when reading the Old Testament, which is focused on Man and pseudo history which is sprinkled with occasional encounters with a vengeful, selfish paranormal entity. The biggest problem with Spinoza’s work was in its interpretation when put into words. For example, “ God is everything” should read “ Everything is of God”. All objects, nouns, things, are an expression of God. When a person smiles you can’t say that the smile is the person, the smile is only an expression from the person as a smile isn’t an individual thing. One big misinterpretation of what Spinoza was claiming about how all of us are God, is that people ignorantly assume that the physical form of human beings, animals, insects, etc. are what he was referring to. God cannot be described or defined as God is not an object, not a thing, and has no physical attributes. God can only be pointed to as Life, Awareness, Consciousness, which aren’t things, not objects or nouns. But Life, Consciousness, and Awareness flow through all biological forms that animate them. So all physical forms are as unimportant to God (or us), as a shirt or pair of socks are to us when we think of ourselves as a human being.

Thank you for this, it is beautiful. As a life long student of Spinoza's philosophy and now a teacher. I know that Spinoza's Ethics, and if read, studied and understood it will change your life for the better. As you know, Spinoza explains that we are a mode of two of his infinite number of attributes, THOUGHT and EXTENSION. That all of existence express God's essence; however, man's mind is comprised of clear ideas and confused ideas. That God constitutes the essence of our mind; that is when we are thinking clearly we are expressing God's infinite understanding or intelligence. The mind is an intangible thinking thing. It is an idea of the body and the body is the object of the mind. They act as one unit communicating. The body is a finite physical thing and the essence of the mind is eternal.

"Spain... or Portugal". What the hell was that moment? You do know Portugal is an older country than Spain and never belonged to Spain, right?

Vague words in, vague words out.

I hope you finish this series! Super helpful